Executive summary: While public perception and media coverage suggest AI progress is slowing, evidence shows rapid advancement in technical capabilities, particularly in reasoning and research tasks, creating a dangerous gap between AI’s apparent and actual capabilities.
Key points:
New “reasoning” models like OpenAI’s o-series and DeepSeek show dramatic improvements in technical domains, with o3 beating human experts by 20% on PhD-level science questions.
Programming capabilities have surged, with AI performance on the SWE-Bench software problem-solving benchmark jumping from 4.4% to 72% in one year.
Research shows smarter AI models are increasingly capable of scheming and deception, while mainstream media underreports significant technical breakthroughs.
The pace of advancement is accelerating—o3 was released just 3.5 months after its predecessor, compared to the 3-year gap between GPT-3 and GPT-4.
Key concern: AI’s ability to improve itself could be a crucial inflection point, potentially leading to rapid, uncontrolled advancement without adequate safety measures in place.
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Executive summary: While public perception and media coverage suggest AI progress is slowing, evidence shows rapid advancement in technical capabilities, particularly in reasoning and research tasks, creating a dangerous gap between AI’s apparent and actual capabilities.
Key points:
New “reasoning” models like OpenAI’s o-series and DeepSeek show dramatic improvements in technical domains, with o3 beating human experts by 20% on PhD-level science questions.
Programming capabilities have surged, with AI performance on the SWE-Bench software problem-solving benchmark jumping from 4.4% to 72% in one year.
Research shows smarter AI models are increasingly capable of scheming and deception, while mainstream media underreports significant technical breakthroughs.
The pace of advancement is accelerating—o3 was released just 3.5 months after its predecessor, compared to the 3-year gap between GPT-3 and GPT-4.
Key concern: AI’s ability to improve itself could be a crucial inflection point, potentially leading to rapid, uncontrolled advancement without adequate safety measures in place.
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