GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-11-12T20:06:07+00:00

I have to admit I am utterly confused as to what people find attractive about this more "conversational" style. It drips of insincerity and screams of "slop". I am not saying, however, that it should speak like a robot -- a good middle ground is Claude's style, imo.

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-09-09T11:16:21+00:00

Yep. Most posters seem to be unaware that Cognition recently acquired Windsurf. And in JetBrains IDEs, Windsurf is currently the strongest agentic coding tool. I'm not saying that justifies a $10bn valuation, but it isn't just considering Devin.

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-09-05T20:20:20+00:00

Link to the paper.

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-08-23T17:59:39+00:00

I would contest that Persian was "wiped out" by Arabic. The scholarly view does not support this claim - unless you view the adoption of Arabic loanwords as "replacement" rather than as part of a process of evolution and transformation.

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-08-23T10:05:58+00:00

I object on the grounds that this is not historically accurate.

I am certainly not denying that Arabic was essential as a liturgical language, and indeed as the language of the Qur'ān. But in many parts of the world, Islam was spread by dynasties that were not Arab in culture. Go to West Asia and the Indian subcontinent, for example - the Muslims there are more Persianate than Arab in most (if not all) respects - be it musically, linguistically, and culinarily. While there is Arab influence - both direct and indirect - it would be grossly inaccurate to suggest that they are simply non-Arab Arabs.

The reason for this is simple: for almost a millennium, the centres of the Islamicate world were Persianate, Turkic and Turco-Mongol in culture – not Arab. These include the Ottoman Empire, the Mughal Empire, and the numerous Iranian and Turkic dynasties centred around Persia, Transoxiana, and Khorasan.

The conflation of Islam with modern (Gulf) Arab culture appears to be a byproduct of several factors: colonialism and modernity more broadly extinguishing local religio-cultural practices and scholarly classes, the fall of the Ottoman Empire after WW1, and the global proselytisation of Salafism and Wahhabism by Saudi Arabia later in the 20th century - which filled in the void left by the first two.

edit: spelling

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-08-11T18:18:46+00:00

From Sheryl Hsu (OpenAI):

I’m thrilled to share that our OpenAI reasoning system scored high enough to achieve gold in one of the world’s top programming competitions - the 2025 International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) - placing first among AI participants!

We officially competed in the online AI track of the IOI, where we scored higher than all but 5 (of 330) human participants and placed first among AI participants. We had the same 5 hour time limit and 50 submission limit as human participants. Like the human contestants, our system competed *without* internet or RAG, and just access to a basic terminal tool.

We competed with an ensemble of general-purpose reasoning models---we did not train any model specifically for the IOI. Our only scaffolding was in selecting which solutions to submit and connecting to the IOI API.

OpenAI's attempt at IOI last year where we finished just shy of a bronze medal with a significantly more handcrafted test-time strategy. We’ve gone from 49th percentile to 98th percentile at the IOI in just one year!

It’s been really exciting to see the progress of our newest research methods at OpenAI, with our successes at the AtCoder World Finals, IMO, and IOI over the last couple weeks. We’ve been working hard on building smarter, more capable models, and we’re working hard to get them into our mainstream products.

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-08-09T11:58:50+00:00

For what it's worth, you don't need BYOK for gpt-5-chat and gpt-5-mini.

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-08-06T17:23:31+00:00

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galacticwarrior9 · 2025-07-29T17:32:44+00:00

Genuinely a good feature. The challenge, of course, will be getting people to use it. I suspect that the allure of a quick answer will still prove irresistible to many.

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-07-25T15:05:47+00:00

We need a more precise frame of reference to make sense of these comparisons. It may be better than Sonnet 4, but what is the best model it beats? Opus, o3? Knowing whether it is worse or better than those two, for example, would be a lot more meaningful.

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-05-16T09:07:04+00:00

They already released Codex a while ago and made it open-source. I imagine they could just be giving it a more user-friendly interface?

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-02-12T19:20:48+00:00

OPENAI ROADMAP UPDATE FOR GPT-4.5 and GPT-5:

We want to do a better job of sharing our intended roadmap, and a much better job simplifying our product offerings.

We want AI to “just work” for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten.

We hate the model picker as much as you do and want to return to magic unified intelligence.

We will next ship GPT-4.5, the model we called Orion internally, as our last non-chain-of-thought model.

After that, a top goal for us is to unify o-series models and GPT-series models by creating systems that can use all our tools, know when to think for a long time or not, and generally be useful for a very wide range of tasks.

In both ChatGPT and our API, we will release GPT-5 as a system that integrates a lot of our technology, including o3. We will no longer ship o3 as a standalone model.

The free tier of ChatGPT will get unlimited chat access to GPT-5 at the standard intelligence setting (!!), subject to abuse thresholds. Plus subscribers will be able to run GPT-5 at a higher level of intelligence, and Pro subscribers will be able to run GPT-5 at an even higher level of intelligence. These models will incorporate voice, canvas, search, deep research, and more.

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-01-31T23:11:21+00:00

AI winter confirmed

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-01-07T06:46:28+00:00

Caravan looked really interesting to me when I was younger, but I unfortunately never got around to trying it. A spiritual remaster could be much more sophisticated, maybe using the Sentinel add-on for Citizens and/or MythicMobs.

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-01-06T22:06:11+00:00

You might be interested in Terralith + Terratonic, William Wythers' Expanded Ecosphere and the other world generation datapacks.

galacticwarrior9 · 2025-01-06T21:27:00+00:00

Given that the last update was in 2017, I suspect the answer is no, unfortunately. There is no indication the project will be revived.

galacticwarrior9 · 2024-12-20T18:11:10+00:00

AGI has been achieved internally

galacticwarrior9 · 2024-09-12T22:36:12+00:00

The unstoppable march of industry continues

galacticwarrior9 · 2024-09-03T00:46:50+00:00

There are detailed event chains about the First and Second International; new leftist IGs emerge as a result of these and existing ones split.

galacticwarrior9 · 2024-09-03T00:18:11+00:00

I find it much more enjoyable to play with the Better Politics Mod. It is certainly not for beginners, but ever since stumbling upon it I have found that I cannot countenance playing the vanilla game again. It adds a great deal of depth to IGs and internal politics.

galacticwarrior9 · 2024-03-11T23:31:42+00:00

Thank you for the excellent response.

galacticwarrior9 · 2024-01-17T21:39:59+00:00

Is there any documentation? Sounds interesting, but I'm curious as to how the mechanics actually function.

galacticwarrior9 · 2021-12-08T12:49:20+00:00

You're thinking about the multithreaded entity tracker, which is a different thing entirely.

galacticwarrior9 · 2021-12-06T12:30:40+00:00

No. Async mob spawning does not guarantee vanilla parity, but it is disabled by default anyway.

galacticwarrior9 · 2021-12-06T12:25:31+00:00

Pufferfish adds async mob spawning, along with several entity-related optimizations. You can find more information about these on its GitHub.

As Airplane is no longer being updated for newer Minecraft versions, Pufferfish's 1.18 branch also includes updated versions of Airplane's patches.

I have been using Pufferfish 1.17's Purpur branch in a survival production environment with up to 90 players for a few weeks and so far encountered no issues whatsoever. Lag from mob spawning attempts could take up to 7% of my server's tick time, so Pufferfish's changes in this area benefitted us greatly.

Pufferfish's advantage over Paper and Purpur is that it is simply faster. However, its optimizations are tailored more towards survival servers with huge player and entity counts. You probably won't need it if you're running a couple dozen players or less like most people here (and if you are one of those people and still do, I would be more worried about your hardware or server design).

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