Well I just finished it yesterday and it usually takes at least a month to go from application to offer, so it would be quite impressive indeed if I already had gotten an offer with it today.
Criticisms like this are levied against an excessively narrow (obsolete?) characterisation of what is happening in the AI space currently.
After reading about o3's performance on ARC-AGI, I strongly suspect people will not be so flippantly dismissive of the inherent limits of these technologies by this time next year. I'm genuinely surprised at how myopic HN commentary is on this topic in general. Maybe because the implications are almost unthinkably profound.
Anyway, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and everyone else are well aware of these types of criticisms, and are making significant, measurable progress towards architecturally solving the deficiencies.
You mention hiking several times, I assume it is something you enjoy. Now, imagine, instead of regularly having to travel to Yosemite from your local suburban area, you instead go live in Yosemite and use your headset to do the things you did in your suburban area. More hiking, less time spent in transport.
If Hollywood wants to full body scan me so my likeness becomes famous forever, I'm all for it. Fly me down, give me a day pass to Disneyland, and I'm good.
I uploaded the paper to chatgpt and it summarized it, wrote pseudo code and wrote haskell code with very little prompting from me... no idea if it's _good_ code, because I didn't run it and I don't know the domain or haskell, but it did produce code -- and explained that some of it is non trivial to implement and might need more attention and explained why.
You know how sometimes the gift you really want is cash or a gift card, but people often prefer to give you physical gifts that you can open and admire?
Imagine a line of faux jewelry that is marked up to real-jewelry prices and that, unbeknownst to the gift giver, comes with a hidden gift card code. So somebody asks you what you'd like for your birthday and you say, "Oh, I'd really like some Lagniappe brand jewelry," and they go out and buy you a $50 necklace that's actually worth only a buck or two, but has a gift card code worth $45 on the underside of the box.
You thank them profusely for the lovely necklace, they feel good for having bought you something besides a gift card, and you feel good that you can put $45 toward a new washing machine.
> It's something a clever fourth-grader would write.
This level of cope and denial is amazing to witness.
The most powerful (multi trillion dollar) companies on the planet are pouring practically infinite resources into developing systems that will ultimately make you redundant.
An early version of AGI is staring you in the face while you call it a "fourth-grader". It won't stay in fourth grade forever.
