First, abstracting from all the words in my long analysis on OpenAI Astra yesterday, the overall point was that Astra may not be the breakthrough that OpenAI wants you to think it was. I expressed concerns about how little they revealed about what they did. Moreover, I thought I didn’t stress it there, we all know they are facing huge economic and competitive pressures; they need a win. I am often left with the feeling that their public facing communications are better marketing than they are science.My jaw dropped a couple hours after my own post, reading this from Levent Alpöge, an accomplished mathematician who works at Anthropic:levent@__alpoge__so after 24h i have half of them with fable
i didn’t see much discussion of prompting in the announcement but this is a similar setup as with my e.g. unit distance announcement:
totally autonomous,
generic prompt,
no internet
