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1 week ago | 
post.substack.com | Alberto Romero |Azeem Azhar |Caroline Chambers |Dan Harris
Graduation has always marked a transition from one phase of life to another, but rarely have new graduates stepped into a world where everything else seems to be in transition, too. The economy, media, politics, art, technology—there’s a lot of uncertainty about what the future holds. We reached out to a broad cross-section of writers, creators, philosophers, artists, and technologists on Substack to share their hard-won wisdom with the Class of 2025.
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2 months ago | 
sharongoldman.substack.com | Sharon Goldman |Alberto Romero
Unlike , author of , I don’t believe that those hell-bent on a quest to build AGI (or the latest term, superintelligence), are trying to create a new God. While their stated reasons may differ, I think in attempting to build artificial general intelligence, they are really looking to create idols — human-made cult images. After all, AGI is something we humans are creating. It does not appear to us in a dream, or a vision.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
What if I told you that GPT-5 is real. Not just real, but already shaping the world, from where you can’t see it. Here’s the hypothesis: OpenAI built GPT-5 but kept it internally because the return on investment is far greater than if they released it to millions of ChatGPT users. Also, the ROI they’re getting is not money but something else. As you see, the idea is simple enough; the challenge is connecting the breadcrumbs that lead to it.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
towardsdatascience.com | Sara A. Metwalli |Zoumana Keita |Alberto Romero |Ludovic Benistant
In honor of the International Year of Quantum Technology, I plan to write as many articles as possible about different aspects of the quantum field. However, to discuss deeper and more technical topics, I first need to explain the basics well enough so everyone can catch up later. Quantum computers are systems that utilize the powers of quantum Physics and mechanics to execute computations.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
As an extended Christmas gift, OpenAI is holding a 12-day shipping streak. They will announce, demo, and/or release new stuff. Today is day one and they’ve given us a heavyweight release: ChatGPT Pro and the full o1 model (here’s o1’s system card). The presentation was short but they seem to have turned the tides on the competition (we’ll have to wait for independent testing results). Let’s start with the new model, o1.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
albertoromgar.medium.com | Alberto Romero
A new study sheds light — or rather shadow — on the job questionAlberto Romero·Follow5 min read·--Source: HBRAutomation wasn’t invented in the 19th-century factories of the Industrial Revolution, nor during the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century. The idea of machines imitating human actions goes back much further.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
albertoromgar.medium.com | Alberto Romero
AI companies will have to explore other routesAlberto Romero·Follow6 min read·--Reihaneh Golpayegani & The Bigger Picture / Better Images of AI / A Corner Of The History / CC-BY 4.0March 2024. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joins podcaster Lex Fridman for the second time since ChatGPT came out a year prior. The stakes are high and anticipation is tangible. GPT-5 appears to be around the corner.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
March 2024. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joins podcaster Lex Fridman for the second time since ChatGPT came out a year prior. The stakes are high and anticipation is tangible. GPT-5 appears to be around the corner. Altman, elusive as always, provides only one data point for us hungry spectators: The next-gen model (he doesn’t name it) will be better than GPT-4 to the same degree that GPT-4 was better than GPT-3. I close the tab and start typing.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
albertoromgar.medium.com | Alberto Romero
Part I of IV: REQUIEMAlberto Romero·Follow7 min read·--The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David, 1787Join The Algorithmic Bridge, a blog about AI that’s actually about people. At this point, asking what comes after generative AI sounds, to those as deep into the rabbit hole as I am, like asking what comes after death: The end never seems to arrive, and you wonder if something worse awaits on the other side — is it the Jabberwocky or just more wonky jabber from a new breed of AI models?
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
albertoromgar.medium.com | Alberto Romero
Don’t let the bad guys steal democracyAlberto Romero·Follow8 min read·--Our Flag by Frederic Edwin Church, 1864 (cropped)As a foreigner, it’s been a thrill to watch the events leading up to the US elections unfold. As a writer focused on AI, not so much. Lest I become a fear monger, let me say that no one needs vanguard innovation to spread lies and issue convincing propaganda. Standard channels of distribution like social media matter more than ChatGPT and they’re not new.
