Leaks point to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.5 nearing release

Reddit user Automatic_Lynx_7777 posted a fan-made AI music video for Ikimono Gakari's "Blue Bird" from Naruto Shippuden, built with the Minimax-h3_Singularity model and a dmad_minimax_h3 4-step ComfyUI checkpoint.

Nick Nisi, who leads developer and agent experience at WorkOS, wired a simulated fruit fly brain built from a full scan of its neurons into code review to argue the human reviewer is now the bottleneck as code is written faster than ever.

A civil engineer who owns a small municipal engineering firm and does forensic engineering for legal cases says Claude is "honestly shocking" in its usefulness for the work. The engineer describes civil engineering as a conservative industry where using AI is practically taboo.

A Rockbox plugin runs Karpathy's llama2.c TinyStories models on an iPod Video 5.5G (PortalPlayer PP5022, ARM7TDMI at 80 MHz, 64 MB RAM). With no FPU, the int8 runq.c was ported to integer-only math using lookup tables for exp/softmax plus an integer square root.

A run of r/ChatGPT posts describes users turning to ChatGPT and Claude for mental-health support, including one who saw 3 therapists, a neuropsychologist and a concussion specialist without relief. Another says ChatGPT's Trusted Contact feature made them realize how lonely they are.

Guest post by Frank Calegari argues mathematicians should focus on hiring, publishing and training rather than AI labs' behavior, after OpenAI's October 6 release of over 700 research papers. He notes the papers are poorly written, violate attribution norms, and some are wrong.