Kevin Roose
@kevinroose
NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, high-perplexity language model. Writing a book about AGI.
Some news: I'm writing a book about AGI! I've spent the past few years hanging out in San Francisco's AGI scene — the small cluster of people working to build human-level AI, or trying to stop it from being built, or living as if it's already here. I've heard a lot of great…
Today, we at @OpenAI achieved a milestone that many considered years away: gold medal-level performance on the 2025 IMO with a general reasoning LLM—under the same time limits as humans, without tools. As remarkable as that sounds, it’s even more significant than the headline 🧵
1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).
There's a full house for NYT's Hard Fork Live in SF event, where @kevinroose and @CaseyNewton are set to interview @sama and @bradlightcap shortly.
Hard Fork Live is tonight! What should we ask @sama, @bradlightcap and @patrickc ?
I used to think the "fancy autocomplete" stuff was just goofy cope from NLP dead-enders, but maybe it's actually more calculated than that. There's clearly a market for people who want to be told that AI is a fad and that they don't need to worry about it.
it’s truly nonsensical to say things like this when genai is legit super useful for consumers and businesses - i mean, i get the academic shtick, but it is automating a ton of work already get over it :)
Hard Fork Live is going to be incredible. This ChatGPT Coachella poster doesn't even capture all of the fun stuff we've got planned. nytimes.com/events/hardfor…
The problem with trying to buy your way into the AGI race in 2025 is that top-tier AI researchers 1) are already rich, 2) think we have like 1-4 years before superintelligence, and 3) don't want to spend those years building AI companions for Instagram
META attempted to buy Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence, and also attempted to hire him, according to reporting tonight by CNBC.
Amazon CEO: "As we role out more Generative AI and agents ... we will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs ... In the next few years, we expect this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get…
The @NYTmag asked me and Casey to record an opener for their big AI issue about how we use AI. We had a good time, and I got to unveil my mental model of LLMs: a very smart assistant who is also high on ketamine. nytimes.com/2025/06/16/mag…
