Bif

Building | Scientist-engineer | Prev: applied ML/AI PostDoc @GeorgiaTech; Biochemistry PhD @universityofga

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

ε Pulse: Issue #39
Jev ⚡, Muse 🎨, and The Misleading Metaphors in the AI World 🤖
https://t.co/breC04NSqn

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

Some of our anxiety about rogue AI rests on a deeper philosophical confusion; mistaking sophisticated goal-directed behavior for intellect, will, & genuine agency.

I wrote about the metaphysics of Rogue AI:
https://t.co/DL0UV3dpsR

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I talked to a founder who was demoralized because all the ideas he could think of could be easily duplicated. I told him to ignore that worry; nearly all startup ideas are like that at first. Their value is the other ideas they lead to.

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

Fresh update to my bacterial evolution & antibiotic resistance simulator (evodish).
GPT-6 Asta help cleaned things up.

web app: https://t.co/OlYCr83gML
code: https://t.co/6KsvHsIqZf

https://t.co/0J4qnJ5ePm

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

A few weekends ago, I started building this real-time simulator of bacterial evolution and antibiotic resistance (calling it evodish).

Just got around to finishing it up.

You drop antibiotic discs into a digital petri dish, natural selection unfolds.

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

@samdape I won't even disagree with that. not much to disagree with.

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

@BishopBarron i can't wait.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

GPT-6 Astra represents a step-function change in model capability for interactive reasoning problems. It scores 66% on ARC-AGI-3 using our standard harness, and nearly 100% with a continuous conversation harness and custom compaction, at a cost of roughly $360 per game.

In fact, the continuous harness version significantly outperforms our human baseline in action efficiency across almost all levels. When we examined the reasoning chains to understand how the model operates, we found it performing highly efficient, on-the-fly symbolic world modeling for each game and level. It goes as far as developing its own shorthand DSL to represent in-game situations -- essentially a game-specific algebraic notation.

Overall, Astra exhibits symbolic modeling behaviors we had previously only seen with sophisticated harnesses -- so harness capabilities are increasingly shifting into the model itself.

We see Astra as a major breakthrough in model intelligence.

Read our post on Astra and what these results mean: https://t.co/wJnYxEqYNI

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

😬

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

We are going to need a different AGI benchmark. Where is the goalpost moving next?

[Rehan Sheikh @rehan_shei]

Minimax H3 Max has generates video faster than you can watch it so I hooked it to a twitch livestream! Now you can watch infinite interdimensional cable - link to the stream below

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

😂

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

lol

[Charly Wargnier ☄️ @DataChaz]

Best use of AI I've seen this year

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Carlos Baleba. Manchester United.

IT'S OFFICIAL! ❤️🔒

[Beautiful Nubia @Beautiful_Nubia]

I think this one should be self-explanatory

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

Around the Web Issue 39: Claustrophobic Metaphysics

👶🏻 Simulating the birth lottery
💻 The death of Stack Overflow
⚱️Giza Plateau's Hidden Structures
🎨 Nigeria’s Mysterious Art Treasures

https://t.co/JjjJSIKxHB

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

My latest curated AI reading & watch list.

ε Pulse, Issue #38:
Block’s Buzz🐝, Agents Plugins 🔌, and Why Agents Need Antology📜

https://t.co/mMkKY79Qg1

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

I really like this analogy of Middleware in Deep Agents (https://t.co/UwAkj3EdKq):

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

A clear-eyed intellectual history of the shift from classical realism to modern subjectivity that is now rampant in the West.

"...Kant himself was by no means a relativist, but his revolution in philosophy greased the skids for contemporary relativism."

https://t.co/V1IUdZMNmD

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

One of the archeologist in the doc wrote this book (I have been planning to get to it), looks like it's going to be more 'solid' vs. Samuel Johnson, Akintoye and the likes: https://t.co/pzwgs88hRw

[Bif @BifarinTheFifth]

Fine documentary about ile-ife art; one of the excavation sites in the doc is very close to where i lived for a long time: https://t.co/p3rPsTixuq

[Unsloth AI @UnslothAI]

Kimi K3 can now be run locally! ✨

The 1-bit model retains ~78.9% accuracy after we shrunk it from 1.56TB to 594GB (-62% size).

Run on a Mac Studio + 128GB RAM device.

Kimi K3 is the strongest open model to date.

Guide: https://t.co/1mVwOMLpDW
GGUF: https://t.co/bt1c1ADdCZ