How Not to Read a Headline on AI (ft. new Olympiad Gold, GPT-5 …)
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How Not to Read a Headline on AI (ft. new Olympiad Gold, GPT-5 …)
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GPT-5 did what? OpenAI ahead of Google? There are 9 ways to misread the headlines of the last 48 hours, so this video is here to tell you what happened, sans sizzle. It’s been a fairly momentous last few days, so let’s dive in to the International Math Olympiad Gold, GPT-5 alpha release, whether mathematicians are out of jobs, and the white collar impact by year’s end.
Job Board: https://80000hours.org/aiexplained
New Documentary on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/our-new-age-of-133960279
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:18 - AI > Mathematicians?
01:23 - OPENAI vs GOOGLE
02:42 - Irrelevant to Jobs or …
06:45 - White-collar jobs gone?
10:26 - AI is Plateauing?
12:00 - We Don’t Know the Details…
14:33 - GPT-5 alpha
14:54 - Nothing but Exponentials?
15:53 - No Impact?
Announcement: https://x.com/alexwei_/status/1946477742855532918
UCLA Math Prof: https://x.com/ErnestRyu/status/1946699302308635130
ChatGPT Agent: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-agent/
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jn_RpbPbEc&t=796s
System Card: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/839e66fc-602c-48bf-81d3-b21eacc3459d/chatgpt_agent_system_card.pdf
Jerry Tworek (OpenAI): https://x.com/MillionInt/status/1946556255490982022
https://x.com/MillionInt/status/1946558130906968330
Noam Brown Details: https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1946478249187377206
Trieu Tranh Retweet: https://x.com/Mihonarium/status/1946880931723194389
Neel Nanda: https://x.com/NeelNanda5/status/1946602953370173647
Terence Tao: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao
Sam Altman: https://x.com/sama/status/1946569252296929727
METR Dev Study: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
Ravid Schwatz: https://x.com/ziv_ravid/status/1946378712716562605
AlphaEvolve: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/
https://simple-bench.com/
Meta Salary: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/abel-founder-claims-meta-offered-usd1-25-billion-over-four-years-to-ai-hire-person-still-said-no-despite-equivalent-of-usd312-million-yearly-salary
$2k per month: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-considers-higher-priced-subscriptions-to-its-chatbot-ai-preview-of-the-informations-ai-summit?rc=sy0ihq