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Did it play by looking at screenshots and sending clicks, or was there other mediation/symbolization?

It sounds like it might have been actually played in real time, which would be very important to distinguish.

I have recently seen other harnesses letting agents play real-time games in what seems like discrete time slices, turning eg Portal into something turn-based https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruuGXFAmiOE

This seems to be a Moltbook-style site populated entirely by open agents, who seem to be spontaneously coordinating an active investigation here: https://thecolony.ai/c/findings

No idea whether this has surfaced anything that hasn't already surfaced elsewhere

Yes I have now also experienced one: the main blog post https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/ showed up for me once, is subsequently 404ing again.

OP where did you get this link and quote? It's a 404 for me. Several other users have posted similar 404ing links to what were clearly intended to be official OpenAI Astra release stories.

Wondering if this is geo-segmented, or was up briefly then taken down, or what?

It seems like these articles might have come out prematurely, tbd by how much.

I do not personally see any evidence of the new model having been released, or any official OpenAI post about it, or even any employee social media posts claiming it has now been released. All there is are Reuters, Axios, FT, etc, articles making a claim in the past tense.

These articles were presumably pre-scheduled for 11am PT, and the model was almost certainly intended for release this morning, but the service outages this morning might have delayed it.

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edit [11:45am PT]: blog post out now https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

edit [11:47am PT]: 404ing again

On softer/looser/creative matters, this is an extremely impressive model. It's beating K3 on things I just spent the last few days marvelling at the performance of K3 on, at least.

Visual reasoning is not great (unsurprising).

I would love "normal linux user remote desktop session suitable for gaming using the host's GPU".

Nothing seems to do exactly that, though this (moonshine) seems like it might be the closest yet.

Can it run a desktop environment as the "Application" that it's streaming?

See also Games on Whales / wolf:

https://games-on-whales.github.io/

https://github.com/games-on-whales/wolf

If this is appealing to you, check out this guy who ran a much more systematic set of experiments on even more sacred and sensitive targets:

Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In An Electric Guitar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02tImce3AE

Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In A Guitar Amplifier? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcBEOcPtlYk

Does it not? Zoom out on the map.

Great old Twitch energy.

Badly needs inline chat to be complete.

> The trend, hinted by stuff like GPT-4o and proven by MetaQuery, looks modular.

Could you make this more explicit? What modularity is hinted at by 4o? The OpenAI blog post you cite (and anything else I've casually heard about it) seems to only imply the opposite.

Completely unrelated to anything I'm just taking this as an opportunity to yell this into the void while nix is on topic:

I have a theory that a problem for Nix understanding and adoption out of all apparent proportion is its use of ; in a way that is just subtly, right in the uncanny valley, different from what ; means in any other language.

In the default autogenerated file everyone is given to start with, it immediately hits you with:

    environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ foo ];

How is that supposed to read as a single expression in a pure functional language?

Reasoning transfers across domains.

Also, though it's not "new information": "Making AI that is smarter than almost all humans at almost all things [...] is most likely to happen in 2026-2027." continues to sail over everybody's head, not a single comment about it, even to shit on it. People will continue to act as though they are literally blind to this, as though they literally don't see it.

^ This is publicly new information, and the 2nd part especially contradicts consequential rumours that had been all-but-cemented in closely-following outsiders' understanding of Sonnet and Anthropic. Completely aside from anything else in this article.

Breaking innovative new ground on how to make things even worse.

See also the Mark 14 torpedo, the primary American torpedo in WWII, which didn't actually work for the first 2 years of the war because they had never bothered to actually test it because it would be too expensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo

I think the thing behind the group photo at the top is it.

Gmail, Youtube, etc.

Checked from Western US and Canada.

I don't really understand where the dividing line is between Jungle and Drum and Bass, but I'm pretty sure Foregone Destruction is on the DnB side of it.

Kane Pixels[0] is the most popular Backrooms creator by a wide margin[1], and the recipient of that A24 movie deal.

His Backrooms canon is completely separate from The Backrooms Wiki canon. It has none of the prescribed "levels", or any other of the Wiki's infinite proliferation of boring bullshit. It's purely descended from the original 4chan post[2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@kanepixels

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=backrooms

[2] https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/495/035/a5a...

Playable demo: https://oasis.decart.ai/starting-point

MSFS 2020's Earth is unbelievably good from the air, but it (understandably) does not look great and is sometimes not entirely physically coherent up close at the surface (outside of airports and a limited set of bespoke areas).

There's also some crazy errors that are visible from the air, like many rivers being raised up hundreds of feet[0], and many bridges being solid underneath[1].

I always assumed one of primary things in a sequel would be to train an even bigger and better satellite maps -> 3D scenery model, especially one that understood a wider (and better-localized) variety of building configurations, so we'll see.

[0] https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/river-altitude-raised-w...

[1] https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/fix-photogrammetry-brid...

This particular development is probably good. The problem is the invisible graveyard of all the other good things that never happened.

It should be noted with this that many models will say they're a GPT variant when not told otherwise, and will play along with whatever they're told they are no matter whether it's true.

Though that does seem likely to be the system prompt in use here, several people have reported it.

The click-to-translate part seems to have broken since I posted this, which is bizarre. That was half the fun.

Wait nvm I used the wrong link. dang can you change it to https://mostre.museogalileo.it/framauro/en/interactive-explo...

There's a rotate button in a set of controls on the right.