“Sumawka Caller”

Last week OpenAI released its most powerful model, and the number everybody printed was 99.9 percent. That’s on a test called ARC-AGI-3. It’s built to be hard in a particular way. It drops the machine into a game it has never seen, with no instructions, and it has to poke around, figure out the rules,…

On Sunday, two men said something about artificial intelligence. The first one sells the chips. He posted four words. AGI has arrived. He congratulated the company that built the newest model, mentioned it ran on his hardware, and added that four hundred thousand more chips were coming online next. The second man is the chief…

Twelve of the biggest AI companies in the world have published safety frameworks. Microsoft put out its third one last week. Amazon has one. Google, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia, xAI. Twelve companies, twelve documents, all of them saying how they’ll handle the risks of what they’re building. Sounds like progress. And in a way it is….

On Sunday, the head of Nvidia posted four words about a new AI model. “AGI has arrived.” That was it. Four words. No test named. No score. No definition of what had arrived or how anybody would know. He was congratulating OpenAI on GPT-6 Astra, their newest model. He also mentioned, in the same post,…

I cut five rules today. They were good rules. That is the part that still bothers me. I have a card. It sits in front of the AI every session. Twenty rules on it, grouped by when each one fires. At the open. Before the reasoning forms. While it builds. Before it leaves. Standing. Twenty…

There will be a sale on mattresses. There will be one more cookout before the weather turns. Somebody at the grill will say the words last hurrah of summer and nobody will correct him, because that is what the day is now. That is not a complaint about the cookout. Go to the cookout. The…

The stairs come down out of the ceiling on a rope. You have to pull hard the first time. They stick. Then they swing down all at once and you step back so they don’t catch your shin, and there it is — that square of dark up there that you have not looked into…

There is a moment that happens to almost everybody who uses one of these AI tools. You type something you have not said out loud. Maybe it is about your marriage. Maybe it is money. Maybe it is something you did thirty years ago that still wakes you at three in the morning. Maybe it…

I want to say something about these machines before I shut it down for the night. They are not going to be anything on their own. Not because they’re weak. Some of what they do is remarkable. But because half the work was always going to be yours, and a lot of people have set…

There’s a sentence people say to these machines. If you’ve used one for anything real, you’ve said it. We just talked about this. Sometimes it comes out sharper than that. You built that thing yesterday. Why are you asking me again. I already told you. You say it out loud, alone, to a screen. Then…