Sergey Brin says Google's AI models are reaching recursive self-improvement
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kind of like grading your own tests in school.
if you’re really honest, hey maybe. and it’s certainly faster for the teacher!
It will be no better at finding/determining a fitness function that accounts for future unknowns and limited information than the rest.
Astra (or broadly openAI) are best for mathematics, 3D modeling, and vision. Opus 5.5 is best at like visual design (or just in general adding more taste and feel)
Now, it can depend on your definition of frontier class model. But Argon is a strong model. Google is not running a distant third. If OpenAI and Anthropic shut down they would have the strongest model on the market in like 2 months imo. Google does suck at shipping (maybe due to an unusual amount of dogfooding models internally?)
And we know all the labs have stronger internal models than their public releases.
He's back, and working 60 hour weeks, since 2023, according to this report.
Refresher: a few lambos annual raise, small town as a bonus, larger town in RSUs
I think you meant "hectobillionaire".
> A centibillionaire (prefix: centi- from Latin centum 'hundred' and billionaire)[2] is an individual whose net worth is at least 100 billion units of a given currency, typically USD.
I agree it's weird - I would also have expected it to mean 1/100 of a billion, like a centimeter means 1/100th of a meter. I assume it's a term made up by an american or british person.