OpenAIs o3 and o4-mini hallucinate way higher than previous models
By OpenAI‘s own testing, its newest reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, hallucinate significantly higher than o1. First reported by TechCrunch, OpenAI’s system card detailed the PersonQA evaluation results, designed to test for hallucinations. From the results of this evaluation, o3’s hallucination rate is 33 percent, and o4-mini’s hallucination rate is 48 percent — almost half of the time. […]
New PR? Humanoid robots in China competed in their first half-marathon
Over the weekend, humans running as fast as they could were chased by robots through the streets of Beijing, China. To be more specific, it was a half-marathon race, and the robots lagged far behind the humans. On Saturday, China held what it’s calling the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. Over 20 two-legged humanoid robots competed […]
As AI manufacturing grows, so does the techs environmental damage
The U.S. still has its sights on winning the global AI race. First stop: Commandeering AI manufacturing. Announced just last week, a $500 billion infrastructure investment from artificial intelligence giant Nvidia will bring domestic AI manufacturing to the U.S. — that’s half a trillion dollars going toward mass production of the the country’s own AI […]
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All the AI news of the week: ChatGPT debuts o3 and o4-mini, Gemini talks to dolphins
Just like AI models, AI news never sleeps. Every week, we’re inundated with new models, products, industry rumors, legal and ethical crises, and viral trends. If that weren’t enough, the rival AI hype/doom chatter online makes it hard to keep track of what’s really important. But we’ve sifted through it all to round up the […]
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