Stephen Downes

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You definitely want to take the time to watch the short video and read the article, especially if you're an AI sceptic. Ethan Mollick offers a number of descriptions of things the AI did (Claude Fable 5.2, to be specific). The cost of using Fable for more than a few minutes at a time is beyond my budget, so I couldn't test it on any of the things described here. But assuming Mollick's honesty (which I think is fair) this is a convincing demonstration of how capable AI has become. "I think this phase of Jagged AGI is an exciting one, even as I wonder, a bit anxiously, how long it will last," he writes.

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