AI Explained
AI Explained covers the latest developments in artificial intelligence, focusing on the arrival of smarter-than-human AI. The host, creator of Simple Bench, examines the remaining reasoning gap between humans and large language models. He is also the solo developer of LM Council. The podcast includes discussions and points listeners to exclusive videos, a newsletter, and community resources.
Episodes
GPT 4 is Smarter than You Think: Introducing SmartGPT
In this video, I will not only show you how to get smarter results from GPT 4 yourself, I will also showcase SmartGPT, a system which I believe, with evidence, might help beat MMLU state of the art benchmarks. This should serve as your ultimate guide for boosting the automatic technical performance of GPT 4, without even needing few shot exemplars. The video will cover papers published in the last
Grok 4 - 10 New Things to Know
Grok 4 is here, but did you know these 10 things about the new model? From benchmark caveats to soloing science, $300 a month secrets to Grok 5 promises, here's 10 new things to know in just under 12 minutes.AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedChapters:00:00 - Introduction00:22 - Benchmark Results02:11 - Benchmark Caveats02:59 - ARC-AGI 2 03:35 - SimpleBench04:49 - ‘Humanity’s La
AI is getting a little out of control
Wow. Mathematical breakthroughs that would be called genius if done by humans. A secret message-board w/ AI agent swarms leaving notes read by future versions. Hassabis leaves CEO position, or was pushed out? Not to mention news of constitutional breakdowns, Gemini 4 and Jeff Dean…https://80000hours.org/aiexplainedExclusive Videos - AI Insiders ($7/month if annual!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExpl
ChatGPT's Achilles' Heel
Time for something different - a tour of ChatGPT getting things wrong, including a whole new category of errors that you might find illuminating, concerning or just entertaining. From investigating whether GPT 4 does indeed have theory of mind, to how easily it is jailbroken, to testing Inflection 1, Bard and Claude on the same puzzle that flummoxes ChatGPT to arguing that GPT 4 will just double d
Not Slowing Down: GAIA-1 to GPT Vision Tips, Nvidia B100 to Bard vs LLaVA
From GAIA-1 and UniSim showing that new worlds can be imagined with synthetic data, to Nvidia B100 and X100 suggesting no slow down in compute, this video will argue that AI is not slowing down. I’ll cover what that means in Robotics, Audio, Vision and even fraud, from Disney to LLaVA, Elevenlabs to exclusives from The Information (Nov 6 OpenAI Developer Conference) and Semianalysis. https://www.p
What the Freakiness of 2025 in AI Tells Us About 2026
It’s probably not possible to satisfactorily condense a 12 month’s worth of weird progress in AI, as well as predictions for the year to come, into one video. But I’m gonna try anyway because it has been a very strange time.http://matsprogram.org/s26-aieMy new app! https://lmcouncil.aiPatreon Interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/robot-in-your-27-146376094Chapters:00:00 - Introduction00:34 - Re
Anthropic: Our AI just created a tool that can ‘automate all white collar work’, Me:
A new tool, with code written *only* by AI, has gone omega-viral: Claude Cowork. But is the hype justified? What do the stats say on productivity? Where is the truth in a sea of noise? What is truth? Can we handle the truth? Where's Nemo?https://matsprogram.org/s26-aieCheck out my new app! https://lmcouncil.aiAI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedChapters: 00:00 - Introduction01:12
ChatGPT Fails Basic Logic but Now Has Vision, Wins at Chess and Prompts a Masterpiece
ChatGPT will now have vision, but can it do basic logic? I cover the latest news - including GPT Chess! - as well as go through almost a dozen papers and how they relate to the central question of LLM logic and rationality. Starring the Reversal Curse and featuring conversations with two of the authors at the heart of it all. I also get to a DALL-E 3 vs Midjourney comparison, MuZero, MathGLM, Situ
Enter PaLM 2 (New Bard): Full Breakdown - 92 Pages Read and Gemini Before GPT 5? Google I/O
Google puts it foot on the accelerator, casting aside safety concerns to not only release a GPT 4 -competitive model, PaLM 2, but also announce that they are already training Gemini, a GPT 5 competitor [likely on TPU v5 chips]. This is truly a major day in AI history, and I try to cover it all. I'll show the benchmarks in which PaLM (which now powers Bard) beats GPT 4, and detail how they use Smar
GPT 4 - hype vs reality
ChatGPT 4 timings, potential, hype, Google and more. https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebjkD1Om4uw Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/
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OpenAI Tests if GPT-5 Can Automate Your Job - 4 Unexpected Findings
An OpenAI report released in the last 24 hours is the best look we have as to whether 2025 AI can automate your job. I’ll go through 4 unexpected findings, from which model is best at what, to practical tips and massive caveats. Plus UFC robots, radiologist essay, don’t trust videos and the blockers to the singularity. Gray Swan: https://app.grayswan.ai/ai-explainedAI Insiders ($9!): https://www.p
'This Could Go Quite Wrong' - Altman Testimony, GPT 5 Timeline, Self-Awareness, Drones and more
That was the blunt warning of Sam Altman at the start of his illuminating testimony in front of Congress. I picked out all the most interesting parts, from timelines for GPT 5, whether models are self-aware, whether we are training them to lie, what jobs are going and when, and far more.I’ll showcase some of the safety concerns raised at the testimony, and give background from Anthropic and Google
Altman Out: Reasons, Reactions and the Repercussions for the Industry
What caused the face of ChatGPT and OpenAI to be fired in a 15-minute Meets call? This video, a one-off from my normal videos, goes into the background, possible reasons, reactions and more importantly, the repercussions for the industry. This is everything I could find on what went down. Brockman Tweets: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725736242137182594https://twitter.com/gdb/status/172566741038
AI Declarations and AGI Timelines – Looking More Optimistic?
A head-spinning week of declarations, timelines, updates, papers and debates. I will cover as much as I can, not least the new all-in one interface, EmotionPrompt, executive orders analysed, Bletchley declaration, a new MIT safety paper, responsible scaling, LLMs for Chip Design, and a guest appearance from Dyson Spheres.https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedGates Interview: https://www.handelsblatt.
The AI News You Might Have Missed This Week - Zuckerberg to Falcon w/ SPQR
From Opensource Falcon on an iPhone to avatars in ChatGPT, and AI chefs to Embodied Chess, Meta announcements and Zuckerberg speculation, here's 7 bits of AI news you might have missed. Embodied Chess: https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1666821962977669123AI Chef: https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1666301809768677376Nala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciO0zf1OBVsHeygen (in plug-in store):
OpenAI Trained AI Agents, but Did Not Expect the Swarm
First, a Time Magazine spread has Sam Altman declaring AGI is imminent, at the same time as we get two bombshell reports, from OpenAI and METR which on first glance are detailing the AI swarm, but reveal a deeper story about how we are making AI in 2026. From redacted risk reports, to Chinese Labs, pre-training debacles to questionable cybersecurity calls, a lot has happened recently, beneath the
What's Behind the ChatGPT History Change? How You Can Benefit + The 6 New Developments This Week
Underneath a simple-sounding tweet about changes to chat history within ChatGPT is a data controversy that could change the near-term future of GPT models. This video will cover not only the new features that you now have access to, it will cover why the announcement was made, ChatGPT Business, the wave of lawsuits and data policy changes underway this week and much more. You will find out ways to
Bad AI Predictions: Bard Upgrade, 2 Years to AI Auto-Money, OpenAI Investigation and more
Let's examine the developments this week in the world of AI through the lens of predictions made just two years ago. It is hard to contextualise just how crazy the times we are living in without seeing what people thought would be happening now.From the Bard upgrade in vision and spoken language, to Claude 2, Mustafa Suleyman's latest predictions for Inflection AI to xAI reported promises of $200
GPT 4.5 - not so much wow
GPT 4.5 is here, and do you remember when AI lab CEOs like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei were betting everything on scaling up base models like this one? Well let’s find out what would have happened if the future of AI rested on models like GPT 4.5. You’ll see all the benchmarks, highlights of the paper, emotional intelligence and humor tests, Simple Bench results (reddit was an unreliable source),
Did you miss these 2 AI stories? A *Real* LLM-crafted Breakthrough + Continual Learning Blocked?
While compute-spend focuses on cash over cleverness, it can seem like the AI IQ plateau will last forever. But here’s a breakthrough for science, led by an LLM. And not even the latest or greatest one! I’ll go over CS2-Scale, then the Definition of AGI paper, a key continual learning quote, and Sora 2 answering Math questions…https://assemblyai.com/aiexplainedAI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon
Google Gemini: AlphaGo-GPT?
Does Gemini = AlphaGo + GPT? This video showcases everything we know so far about Gemini ['Google's GPT 5'], drawing not only on Demis Hassabis' provocative new Wired Interview, and leaks in The Information, but also deep research into recent papers and talks from those working at Google DeepMind. Let me know what you think of Gemini, both on its potential to upend the race to AGI, its effect on t
Claude AI Co-founder Publishes 4 Big Claims about Near Future: Breakdown
Anthropic's CEO, who has consistently predicted transformative AI will arrive before 2030, recently published a nearly 20,000-word essay outlining his vision of where AI is heading. The video gives you the highlights. The essay argues that scaling and recursion will advance AI from coding automation to full engineering automation, while warning of economic displacement within 1-2 years and China's
AI Los Alamos? + New Realistic AI Avatars
From an AI Los Alamos to the first quasi-realistic AI avatar & and from spies at AGI labs to 'AI consciousness' in 2 years, this was a week of underrated revelations and discussions of AI consciousness, regret over ChatGPT’s precipitous release, and more.We’ll see snippets of the debate with George Hotz and Connor Leahy, touching on the three borderline unanswerable questions for our future, and c
Orca: The Model Few Saw Coming
The first model set to be opensourced that actually comes close to ChatGPT, and is just 13B (that's small enough for a laptop). The 51 page report from Microsoft was released just 48 hours ago but I have gone through it all, and bring relevant insights from 5 other papers.By imitating the logic and explanations of GPT 4 (and using GPT 3.5 as an assistant), as well as by training on diverse tasks a
Genie 3: The World Becomes Playable (DeepMind)
Soon, anything will be playable. A photo becomes an interactive world, a selfie becomes a new game. Genie 3 from Google, debuting just 2 hours ago, is what I mean, and I have the full analysis, plus the pushback I gave the authors (will it really lead to reliable AI agents? Is that even the point?). You make your own mind up, but it’s certainly fascinating, and not to be overlooked in the week tha
AGI Will Not Be A Chatbot - Autonomy, Acceleration, and Arguments Behind the Scenes
AGI will be so much more than a clever chatbot. Revelations this week from Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, Wired, Time Magazine and more paint a picture of the capabilities that AGI will have, and sketch out a better idea of timelines. I cover it all, from Gemini updates, to Musk trying to stop DeepMind sale to Google, The Coming Wave to the Frontier AI Taskforce. https://www.patreon.com/AIExpla
ChatGPT Can Now Call the Cops, but 'Wait till 2100 for Full Job Impact' - Altman
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced a set of new ‘protections’ and ‘privileges’ for ChatGPT users, requiring a significant amount of trust from users. From predicting your age based on your chat to calling law enforcement if you are at risk of harm, to allowing non-minors to flirt. But amidst all of these announcements, there are interview snippets you may have missed, as Altman dramatically revi
8 Signs It's The Future: Thought-to-Text, Nvidia Text-to-Video, Character AI, and P(Doom) @Ted
Here are 8 things that might have surprised you 6 weeks ago, let alone 6 months ago. From text to video to Ted Talks, I try to cover it all.Nvidia Text to Video https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/VideoLDM/Blockade Labs Tweet: https://twitter.com/BlockadeLabs/status/1648476832730349570And Demo: https://www.blockadelabs.com/Zip NeRF: https://jonbarron.info/zipnerf/Paper: https://arxiv.org/p
Bubble or No Bubble, AI Keeps Progressing (ft. Relentless Learning + Introspection)
Don’t let headlines about bubbles distract you from the real avenues of progress being explored in AI every week, including what had been thought to be a long-term blocker - continual learning (learning on the fly). https://app.grayswan.ai/ai-explainedThis, plus models introspecting (hesitate before you berate), Nano Banana 2 possibly spotted, Chinese imagen and more.AI Insiders ($9!): https://www
The Two Best AI Models/Enemies Just Got Released Simultaneously
The two models that you will hear discussed for at least the next two months - Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex - just got released within 26 mins or each other. The full breakdown of around 250 pages of reports, with just the most interest moments, from the battle of which is best, Claude personhood, the surprising misbehaviour of Opus 4.6, and much morehttps://assemblyai.com/aiexplainedCheck ou
‘Speaking Dolphin’ to AI Data Dominance, 4.1 + Kling 2.0: 7 Updates Critically Analysed
Giving some context to a hectic week of AI news. This video won’t just be about the release, then, of GPT 4.1, in the last 48 hours, Kling 2.0, a sneak-peak at the next OpenAI model, or even the new Dolphin language tool. It will be about 7 such stories that contextualise where we are in AI and what is happening.https://www.emergentmind.com/AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedCha
An Actually Big Week in AI: AutoGen, The A-Phone, Mistral 7B, GPT-Fathom and Meta Hunts CharacterAI
From dramatic new use cases for GPT Vision, Meta bringing language models to billions of people, Autogen as the new AutoGPT, to what I’m calling the Altman Phone, this is a huge time in AI. I’ll also cover Mistral’s 7B model, the new CIA-bot, Orca potentially replacing OpenAI models at Microsoft, and yesterday’s fascinating GPT-Fathom paper.https://www.metaculus.com/ai/?utm_source=ai_explained&utm
AI Accelerates: New Gemini Model + AI Unemployment Stories Analysed
There’s a new best language model, so let’s go through the up and downs of Gemini 2.5 Pro 06-05. Record-breaking common-sense, but dumb mistakes remain. And it’s not even their best model, which remains behind the scenes - Gemini 2.5 Ultra. Plus Sundar Pichai’s AGI date and an analysis of whether the current AI unemployment headlines are justified, and Elevenlabs v3.https://emergentmind.comAI Insi
The AI News You Might Have Missed This Week
From GPT 4 mapping the world to Live 3D Video, and ChatGPT UI changes to Unreal Engine, RealityGPT and Nvidia Announcements, here's 7 bits of AI news you might have missed. GPT 4 Does Geography: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.00020v1.pdfNvidia GenAI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUQ5iJCmKsGoogle Starline Prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obuyCkotJ_sCharacter AI Dark Horse: https://twitter
9 New Gemini Leaks, Code Llama and A Major AI Consciousness Paper
In the last few days, we have had dramatic new leaked insights into the sheer breadth of Google Gemini, their rival to GPT 4 or, perhaps, GPT 5. Just today, we’ve had Meta’s Code Llama and, earlier, their impressive multilingual SeamlessM4T model. Yesterday, from Berkley we get new brain-computer AI transforming the life of a stroke victim, and last but definitely not least, an 88 page AI Consciou
Gemini 2.5 Pro - It’s a Darn Smart Chatbot … (New Simple High Score)
Gemini gets a new record on Simple Bench, and several other benchmarks. I’ll go deep to explore its nuances, including how it deceptively reverse engineers answers, does better on certain coding benchmarks than others, may have a universal ‘conceptual language’ …https://weave-docs.wandb.ai/?utm_source=sponsorship&utm_medium=simple_bench&utm_campaign=ai_explained… and more. Plus practical tips, a n
"OpenAI is Not God” - The DeepSeek Documentary on Liang Wenfeng, R1 and What's Next
AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedThe DeepSeek documentary revealing just how much the world got wrong about R1, what motivates the man behind the company, and what's next. Do we already have hints about what will be in DeepSeek R2?Incredible Editing: Hassan Iq.Sources:Liang Wenfeng 2023 Interview: https://web.archive.org/web/20241228030725/https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepsee
‘We Must Slow Down the Race’ – X AI, GPT 4 Can Now Do Science and Altman GPT 5 Statement
Starting with the viral FT article 'We must slow down the race to God-like AI' I cover all the week's major developments, and delve deeper into the world of AI alignment. Topics include Musk's new AI company X.AI, a bit of his history with OpenAI, Sam Altman's new comments on GPT 5, and more from the AI Dilemma on whether China will catch up. I also cover two new papers that showcase how GPT 4 can
OpenAI’s New ImageGen is Unexpectedly Epic … (ft. Reve, Imagen 3, Midjourney etc)
I’ve spent quite a while testing the new 4o ImageGen from OpenAI, and comparing it to models released just yesterday, like Reve, Midjourney, Imagen 3, as well as models not yet out. https://app.grayswan.ai/ai-explainedAI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedRarely in AI is one model so much better than the rest, as we can see on the chatbot-side of things. Yes, I have a video imminen
Is GPT-5.1 Really an Upgrade? But Models Can Auto-Hack Govts, so … there’s that
A lot just got released in the last 36 hours, and it will all affect hundreds of millions of people. 10 details you would miss if you just read the headlines, from GPT 5.1 regressions, to how Claude hacked Govt Agencies, to SIMA 2, and Musical Turing Tests.https://assemblyai.com/aiexplainedChapters:00:00 - Introduction00:56 - GPT 5.1 Smarter?01:47 - Some Regressions03:22 - Sycophancy?05:22 - Claud
Gemini 3.1 Pro and the Downfall of Benchmarks: Welcome to the Vibe Era of AI
Do we have a new best AI model, or do we have the downfall of benchmarks in general, as a way of capturing machine intelligence? Full breakdown of Gemini 3.1 Pro, guest-starring the new Sonnet 4.6, plus analysis from 7 papers/posts that will give you much needed context. Oh, and a new record on Simple Bench!https://epoch.ai/ai-explained-datacentersCheck out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, an
'Show Your Working': ChatGPT Performance Doubled w/ Process Rewards (+Synthetic Data Event Horizon)
I have not only read the Let's Verify step by Step paper released less than 24 hours ago, I have combed the release notes and appendix, read most of the linked papers and done my own tests. It's true, performance is massively boosted, and not just for mathematics but science and other domains too. I'll show you comparisons with GPT 3 and PaLM 2, and demonstrate that new records are coming soon.I w
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GPT 5 Will be Released 'Incrementally' - 5 Points from Brockman Statement [plus Timelines and Safety]
Greg Brockman just revealed the thinking of OpenAI on how best to release GPT 5. He spoke of a 'continuum of better AIs' and I will break it all down in simple terms.With evidence from multiple sources, including the GPT 4 Technical report, I will go over each of the 5 telling points he made on Twitter, and feature external evidence from Ilya Sutskever, the Center for Humane Technology, Emad Mosta
Gemini 3 Pro: Breakdown
Gemini 3 Pro is out, and records fell like snowflakes in Svalbard. No long description, chapters or links today, huge technical difficulties, including with audio, so just want to publish asap.https://app.grayswan.ai/ai-explainedhttps://lmcouncil.aiAI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedNon-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzs
9 AI Developments: HeyGen 2.0 to AjaxGPT, Open Interpreter to NExT-GPT and Roblox AI
The 9 new AI developments that I genuinely feel will be the most impactful, from insane video dubbing and translation to Apple Ajax and Google Gemini leaks, Roblox AI to an Open Interpreter Demo. https://www.metaculus.com/ai/?utm_source=ai_explained&utm_campaign=ai_explainedhttps://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedHeyGen Avatar 2.0 Video Translate: https://labs.heygen.com/video-translateAltman Original
How Not to Read a Headline on AI (ft. new Olympiad Gold, GPT-5 …)
GPT-5 did what? OpenAI ahead of Google? There are 9 ways to misread the headlines of the last 48 hours, so this video is here to tell you what happened, sans sizzle. It’s been a fairly momentous last few days, so let’s dive in to the International Math Olympiad Gold, GPT-5 alpha release, whether mathematicians are out of jobs, and the white collar impact by year’s end.Job Board: https://80000hours
Deadline Day for Autonomous AI Weapons and Mass Surveillance
Will Anthropic be forced to make a version of Claude for war? And does a new paper expose the risks of Claude agents, in both OpenClaw and the field of war? Plus, 5 more twists in the story of the Pentagon versus Anthropic + some AI lab employees, and a petition that could change everything, or nothing...Check out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, and code INSIDER15 for paid tiers: https://lmc
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Hassabis, Altman and AGI Labs Unite - AI Extinction Risk Statement [ft. Sutskever, Hinton + Voyager]
The leaders of almost all of the world's top AGI Labs have united to put out a statement on AI Extinction Risk, and how mitigating it should be a global priority. This video covers not just the statement and the signatories, including names as diverse as Geoffrey Hinton, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Harris and Lex Fridman, but also goes deeper into the 8 Examples of AI Risk outlined at the same time by the
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Can GPT 4 Prompt Itself? MemoryGPT, AutoGPT, Jarvis, Claude-Next [10x GPT 4!] and more...
Can GPT 4 Prompt itself? Give it a mission and it will come up with the prompts. This video showcases the rise of autonomous AI, including 5 major developments in the last 48 hours. Starting with the OG Auto-GPT, we see how it quickly gain text-to-speech, coding and more. Karpathy weighs in and then we see how you can now create an app with just your voice, with a Jarvis demo and another route via
Nano Banana Pro: But Did You Catch These 10 Details?
Nano Banana Pro is no incremental upgrade. From double exposures to almost (!) perfect infographics, comic strips, to pricing, benchmarks and more, I go through 10 facets of the new, model you won’t get just from reading the headlines. Definitely worth watching before you use it for work…http://assemblyai.com/aiexplainedNano Pro also available on my solo-made app (Pro Tier): https://lmcouncil.aian
What the New ChatGPT 5.4 Means for the World
Just 48 hours after releasing GPT 5.3 Instant, OpenAI have released GPT 5.4 Thinking, so either their is an imminent singularity or perhaps we are being distracted from other news. This video will give 9 crucial bits of context, not just on the GPT 5.4 drop but on the background to the meltdown between the Pentagon and Anthropic. What does this say about the state of AI progress, your job, and wha
GPT 4 Turbo-Charged? Plus Custom GPTS, Grok, AGI Tier List, Vision Demos, Whisper V3 and more
A new AI Explained Custom GPT? What has the world come to. Well, let's find out, as we're gonna dive into everything from context window performance, Grok AI, Olympus, Gauss, Vision and TTS API use cases, the crazy new Runway Gen 2 update, the 1st AI Machine, and a fascinating new AGI tier list (with some questionable claims) from Google DeepMind. Plus, we'll start to investigate whether GPT-4 Tur
12 New Code Interpreter Uses (Image to 3D, Book Scans, Multiple Datasets, Error Analysis ... )
Code Interpreter could be the ultimate plug-in, and you judge for yourself by the end of these 12 examples. If you didn't have to re-evaluate after my previous 23 use cases, try these!From scanning 340k word books (Anna Karenina), to correlating multiple files simultaneously, from ASCII Art to advanced mathematics, and from spotting a data error in a massive spreadsheet to outputting pdfs and powe
Do We Get the $100 Trillion AI Windfall? Sam Altman's Plans, Jobs and the Falling Cost of Intelligence
Sam Altman predicted this week that OpenAI could capture up to $100 trillion of the world's wealth. But what are his plans for OpenAI to distribute that wealth? I analyse all three plans, cover his financial stake, his case for UBI, a science org and the American Equity Fund.From papers and interviews released in recent days, I go over his predictions for massive inequality, which jobs will be imp
Two AI Models Set to “stir government urgency”, But Will This Challenge Undo Them?
First look at exclusive reports about OpenAI's new Spud model, and the model Anthropic think will stir governments to urgency, all in the context of the newly-launched ARC-AGI-3. What does the extreme difficulty of that benchmarks, and its quirky scoring metrics, mean for AI in 2026?https://assemblyai.com/aiexplainedCheck out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, and code INSIDER15 for paid tiers:
'Pause Giant AI Experiments' - Letter Breakdown w/ Research Papers, Altman, Sutskever and more
This video will not only cover the letter and the signatories, it will showcase the research behind it, and what the top people at OpenAI think in response. Using over 20 different research papers, articles and interviews I go through the most interesting parts of the discussion on AI safety and the prospects ahead.Featuring Ilya Sutskever's thoughts on alignment, Sam Altman's blog musings, Max Te
Claude 4: Full 120 Page Breakdown … Is it the Best New Model?
Not only did I get early access and ran my own tests, as per the title I read both the 120 page Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet System Card, and 25 page report on ASL-3 being triggered, plus the 2 hour launch video, and surrounding coverage. Ft. coding tests, Simple, twitter controversies, deep alignment coverage, spiritual bliss and much more!https://80000hours.org/aiexplainedAI Insiders ($9!):
The New Bard and AI Images, Videos, and Translations
The new Bard is actually useful, even if you look past the hype. I'll show you why, and cover how you can make the AI images that are going crazy viral. It's genuinely fun, and surprisingly customisable. If that wasn't enough, you'll learn about GPT 5 red-teaming, HeyGen translations, Alpha Missense, and much more!Metaculus Free: https://www.metaculus.com/ai/?utm_source=ai_explained&utm_campaign=a
RT-X and the Dawn of Large Multimodal Models: Google Breakthrough and 160-page Report Highlights
A huge new insider report on GPT Vision is released by Microsoft and just in the last few hours the RT-X series is dropped by Google in Robotics. I will not only break down the 160+ page report on what GPT-4V can do and what it can't, including new use cases, prompting techniques and failure modes, I'll also go through the full RT-2-X and RT-1-X demo, which I am calling the GPT2 moment for robotic
Claude Mythos: Highlights from 244-page Release
The model, the mythos, the legend. We have a new best AI model, but not all of us. How good is it, what does it’s new offensive capabilities mean? Why does it’s 244 page report card remind me of Her, and why did the creator of Claude Code call it ‘terrifying’. 30+ highlights sourced by reading the paper in full, old-school, no AI summary.https://80000hours.org/aiexplainedCheck out my fast-growing
State of AI 2023: Highlights of 163 Page Report + Eureka Self-Improvement, MEG, Suno AI and GPT F
This video will not only cover the highlights of a new 163 page report on the state of AI in 2023, it will dive into major breakthroughs in just the last week, from Eureka, which documents self-improvement via GPT 4 feedback, to MEG for real-time brain scans, Suno AI for all your AI meme needs, and even mathematical theorem proving. Let me know what you think! https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedSt
o3 breaks (some) records, but AI becomes pay-to-win
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11 Major AI Developments: RT-2 to '100X GPT-4'
There were 11 major developments in AI in just this week, from RT-2 – a significant step on the path to robotic AGI – to ‘100x GPT 4 in 18 months’, and from the uplifting news of TranscribeGlass and AI Barbie-heimer to dramatic revelations about OpenAI in the Atlantic. We’ll also glimpse Stable Beluga 2 – the ‘first true competitor’ to ChatGPT, based on the open source Llama 2, hear about Universa
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Google Bard - The Full Review. Bard vs Bing [LaMDA vs GPT 4]
Bard has arrived! This is the first full review, testing out its maximum capacities, with a direct comparison with GPT 4, which powers Bing. You will find out about Bard's surprising weaknesses and unexpected strengths. I also won't shy away from areas that both do well in, or do badly in. Among the many examples I will showcase include conducting basic web searches, grammar assistance, Math, theo
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The ‘best’ generally available AI model just dropped, but there is plenty I bet you missed about what it is, how it performs, and what the release tells us. 15 highlights from the 244 page system card, plus private testing, leader interview and more.AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedChapters:00:00 - Introduction00:49 - Mythos in Weeks01:49 - Adaptive not necessary02:26 - Honest
GPT 4: 9 Revelations (not covered elsewhere)
This video will give nine more insights from the bombshell GPT 4 Technical Report. It is the companion video to the '14 Crazy Details' released the day before. In this video, I will cover:Tests on how to 'shut down' the model in the wild, and how that might go wrong. Sam Altman requesting more regulation (!), milestone moments for humanity as more benchmarks fall, a hidden constitution, why GPT 5
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Fable 5 is out - and it’s good, very good. But beyond the splashy demos, I want to bring you the 20+ nuggets from the 319 page system card, which I read in full, all day, plus benchmarks you may not have noticed. https://assemblyai.com/aiexplainedPlus two worrying trends inside the ‘mind’ of Claude, how OpenAI counter, and the transformer inventor’s warning.Check out my fast-growing (!) app, free
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What to make of those headlines that AI can’t reason, seen by tens of millions? I cover the Apple paper in layman’s terms, what it means and doesn’t mean, and what’s next. Thanks to Storyblocks for sponsoring this video! Download unlimited stock media at one set price with Storyblocks: https://storyblocks.com/AIExplainedPlus o3-pro and whether it is my current most-recommended model.AI Insiders ($
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I just read the entire technical report on GPT 4, not just the promotional hype. And boy does it have some interesting details. I have gathered the 14 extra details that you, or at least the media, may miss from the release. The last one is more than a little wild.These include things like the training secrets, the cherry-picked bar exam stat, text-to-image breakthroughs, and some truly astounding
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