New OpenAI Model ’Imminent’ and AI Stakes Get Raised (plus Med Gemini, GPT 2 Chatbot and Scale AI)

Altman ‘knows the release date’, Politico calls it ‘imminent’ according to Insiders, and then the mystery GPT-2 chatbot [made by the phi team at Microsoft] causes mass confusion and hysteria. I break it all down and cover two papers – MedGemini and Scale AI Contamination – released in the last 24 hours. I’ve read them in full and they might be more important than all the rest. Let’s hope life wins over death in the deployment of AI. AI Insiders: Politico Article: Sam Altman Talk: MIT Interview: Logan Kilpatrick Tweet: Bubeck Response: GPT2: Where it used to be hosted: Unicorns?; No Unicorns: GPT2 chatbot logic fail: And language fails: James Betker Blog: Scale AI Benchmark Paper: Dwarkesh Zuckerberg Interview: Lavander Misuse: Autonomous Tank: Claude 3 GPQA: Med Gemini: Medical Mistakes: MedPrompt Microsoft: My Benchmark Flaws Tweet: My Stargate Video: My GPT-5 Video: Non-hype Newsletter: AI Insiders: