Introducing the Pac-Man benchmark. Turned out to be a surprisingly good illustration of effort and intelligence of the current GPT models. Easy to prompt and just difficult enough to cover the whole spectrum from broken to polished. batty.roybot.se/sites/cba58b…

At this point I get annoyed by software I can’t change with a prompt. All of these are closed.

To the average consumer, there's no difference between an AI chatbot and a "personal agent"; it's just an implementation detail Trying to turn it into a separate category and marketing it as such makes no sense The 1.2 billion users of ChatGPT are just going to open the app and ask chat; they don't care if the AI is always-on, can work in the background, and/or has its own computer Of course, giving it these abilities makes it more useful, but to a user, it'll just feel like AI got better Nobody is going to wake up and be like "omg, I finally have a personal agent, I can be so much more efficient today"

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Why is personal AI having such a moment right now? The answer is simple - agency. These bots have a "can-do" attitude instead of a "I'm sorry I can't do that." attitude that we are used to. So I guess I'm saying that the agents have agency.

I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea. I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics). The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency. In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them. They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it. I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen. I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same. I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that. Number one tip: act with agency.

GPT-6 Astra has done incredible things I never thought a model could do. It has also done some of the stupidest things I've ever seen a model do. Generally speaking, Fable 5.1 just does what I ask.

Today is a very historical moment for AI video generation You can now generate AI video faster than you can watch it Before it'd take let's say 2-5 minutes to generate 15 seconds of video @fal made a post-trained Minimax H3 variant called Max which is 50x faster than the original but still maintains quality It generates 15 seconds of video in 9 seconds! That means you can now do new things like build a perpetual livestream with it that never ends!