Taylor G. Lunt

I tried playing the new Claude 4.5 model in a game of chess. It did really poorly. It played a coherent opening and was difficult to play against for the first ten or fifteen moves, then everything fell apart and it started blundering and even making some illegal moves. Exactly what you'd expect from an AI model that has memorized a bunch of stuff, but can't do its own deep thinking very well at a...

I just tried the new Claude Imagine, and it's pretty cool. It can make basically any simple interface, from a todo app to a roguelike game, and instead of it working using code, the AI manually responds to user clicks by updating the HTML of the interface. I think in the future, having software that's some mix of AI and actual code, with the AI writing code as needed, will be really powerful. Curr...

Many people have made predictions, such as AI 2027 , that AI will become superhuman very soon. I disagree. (Dario Amodei and the AI 2027 authors express low confidence in these statements, to be fair.) I made a post explaining why I thought AI 2027 was wrong with my own predictions for AI in 2027. As a follow-up, I made another post explaining that LLMs have made a lot of progress recently in shal...