AI Reading for Tuesday April 15

OpenAI launches GPT-4.1, says it's better and 26% cheaper than 4o - OpenAI

A lot of the benchmarks still show o3-mini reasoning model as the head-to-head winner. Will be interesting to see if it beats GPT-4o and the current leader Gemini 2.5 in LM Arena, and if they release o3 soon.

One thing that was notable was how far Llama-4 Maverick dropped when they used the stock config instead of the LM Arena-optimized one. Kind of shows the limitations of trying to benchmark these super complex beasts in any single dimension, Goodhart’s law, etc.

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GPT-4.1 didn't challenge Gemini 2.5 on coding, reasoning o3-mini is still the best OpenAI model. - aider

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OpenAI plans to phase out GPT-4.5 from its API in July, presumably because 4.1 is better and cheaper. - TechCrunch

Suggests it was always a bragging rights model, and even at the super high price it cost too much to run.

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Former OpenAI Employee Rages Against Sam Altman: "Person of Low Integrity" - Futurism

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Kling launches 2.0 text-to-video model - YouTube

Some user experiments - Reddit

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How to survive the AI revolution. “We would have handled this challenge better in the nineteen-seventies than we are handling it now—and that’s a very sad statement” - David Autor - The New Yorker

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MIT economics professor Sendhil Mullainathan says it is in humans’ power to put artificial intelligence on a path to help us rather than disrupt society and replace us. - WSJ

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Joseph Stiglitz Warns Of The Looming Inequality Amid AI Monopoly Power - Forbes

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What can workers do if they’re fired by AI? - FT

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What ‘Ex Machina’ got right (and wrong) about AI, 10 years later - Fast Company

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Meetings Won’t Be the Same When the Boss Sends an AI Bot - Bloomberg

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Travis Kalanick says some consultants might be in trouble. I wonder about the WITCH offshore dev platforms. (Wipro, Infosys, Tata, Cognizant, HCL) - YouTube

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Apple plans to collect user data about AI usage with differential privacy - The Verge

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Nvidia starts producing its Blackwell AI chip at TSMC’s Arizona plant, partners with Foxconn and Wistron to build servers and rack-scale interconnected pods in Texas, plans to build a couple of percentage points of GDP worth over the next few years. - The Verge

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‘She helps cheer me up’: People form relationships with AI chatbots - the Guardian

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AI-enabled cameras help blind people navigate

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A weird phrase 'vegetative electron microscopy' tunneled into its way into scientific literature after a glitch in a pdf scan - The Conversation

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DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication - Google

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SurfSense wants to be your locally hosted NotebookLM / Perplexity / Glean, connected to external sources such as search engines, Slack, Notion, YouTube etc - GitHub

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This exhibit is closed temporarily for maintenance - Reddit

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