OpenAI's new model Astra is amazing but vastly oversold
OpenAI is testing Astra internally. Gary Marcus argues the surrounding hype — including claims that "the species just crossed a one-way threshold" — commits the fallacy of composition: skill at math problems does not imply expertise across all cognition.
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