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RT @farguney: @zarazhangrui Because most people don’t know how to evolve with these tools. You’re letting it do your measly psychology hom…
Exploring science, AI, cognition, robotics, engineering, dynamical complex systems, more importantly life and after. Industrial and Systems Engineer (BS, MS).
ChatGPT-5, especially in its “extended thinking” and “Pro” modes, is significantly capable for engineering, science, and research. I hate hype as much as the next guy, but this isn’t hype. It’s not AGI, and it’s not bullet-proof. You still wouldn’t let it run a mission-critical system. But the gap between this generation and the last (ChatGPT-3 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Pro, “Deep Thinking,” whatever) isn’t incremental, it’s seismic. I am sure Gemini 3 Pro will be at or even better level of capabilities. It is the next computing layer. We’ve moved past the dot-com era of “tools.” This is the capability era. If you build, code, research, or design, you either evolve with these systems or get left behind. Dismissing them doesn’t make you wise or skeptical... but it could make you irrelevant.
Exploring science, AI, cognition, robotics, engineering, dynamical complex systems, more importantly life and after. Industrial and Systems Engineer (BS, MS).
Finally, a way to make sure we can’t pull the plug when “it” decides we’re the bug.
Exploring science, AI, cognition, robotics, engineering, dynamical complex systems, and more importantly life. Industrial and Systems Engineer (BS, MS).
Those promising “general-purpose autonomous intelligent robots” are the same people who swore we’d have fully self-driving cars years ago and yet, here we are. In 2016, Tesla said every car it sold already had the hardware for full autonomy; nine years later, it still can’t drive itself from A to B without human babysitting at level 5 autonomy. Billions have been spent, thousands of engineers burned out, and mountains of hype delivered but not the product. The reality is that general intelligence, in machines or in mobility, isn’t a firmware update away; it’s a frontier we barely understand. So when you hear promises of household robots that think, reason, and act unsupervised, remember: they said the same thing about your car.