Claude Opus 5.5 writes and animates a 5 minute explanation of UMAP for an undergraduate ML audience
All of this—the concepts for the visuals, the narration, etc.—is from Claude. Prompted in Claude Code on my phone.
Very impressive! I would say its a good explanation for an undergrad audience in 5 minutes. I appreciate the caveats and discussion at the end; especially regarding using it as a tool to explore and find questions rather than as proof of answers.
It scares me sometimes how little work is left from here to AGI. All roadblocks are so dumb and fixable—symptoms of AI’s recent arrival. it’s all so clearly just a matter of time
> Create a 1 minute video where the right half explains the Black-Scholes formula with voiceover and visuals and the left half plays a generic knockoff of Subway Surfers
Claude Opus 5.5 (Extra)
> Create a 30s animated video with sythesized voice where an animated pelican on a unicycle explains the shell command `w | tail -n +3 | cut -d ' ' -f1 | sort -u` with visuals while juggling several fish.
Claude Opus 5.5 (Extra)
“Imagine there exists a really good movie about you. Animate the opening credits to this film with made-up names in any style you like. Return the sequence as an mp4.”
Claude Opus 5.5 (Extra)
Claude Opus 5.5 (Medium) creates 30s of found footage from someone lost in the part of the Backrooms dedicated to past misshapen results of standard AI art test prompt subjects
I think we have to admit to ourselves at this point that AI writing is generally very appealing to people who haven't been exposed to a ton of it: they prefer it to human writing and react super positively on exposure.
if you think AI chatter has reached an annoying level right now you're in for something else. it's going to be the only thing on anybody's mind starting shortly
For years my stance on pausing AI has been, “Pause and do what?” Whatever alignment work you’d do given a pause, your finite effort is better spent doing that work faster vs. advocating for more time.
Lab calls to pace the frontier have given me some doubt. A bit less sure now.
thinking about just pivoting this account to safety discourse. tired of the hate any sincere ai demo gets lately, and this account has always been 11d-chess for nebulous pro-safety ends anyway so i might as well drop the act
i used to think the world was wasn’t paying enough attention to AI and now I think they might be paying the right amount but in the wrong way so i’m less sure how to correct it