AI can create the illusion of learning before real understanding

“The positive is that when you know all these different tools and approaches to how to think about a problem, AI can often help you find the bit of information that you need,”

“Many of [these concepts] are just tools for thinking about where are we getting fooled. We can be fooling ourselves, the AI could be fooling itself, and then could fool us.”

“As I said, I don't think it was bad for AI. And I think, on net, the world deserves to understand how the universe works. But I do have empathy for the method.”

“People were just throwing that at the hardest problems they could. And people didn't think the model was going to do these things.”

“Our first-party model APIs are now processing nearly 32 billion tokens per minute — 40% more than last quarter and more than four times what we processed a year ago.”