> The species formerly known as Brachiosaurus brancai was reassigned to its own genus, *Giraffatitan*, through a series of taxonomic revisions. The key steps were:
> 1. *Initial Proposal (1988):*
Gregory S. Paul first suggested separating B. brancai from Brachiosaurus in 1988, proposing the informal name "Giraffatitan" as a subgenus. However, this was not widely accepted at the time.
> 2. *Formal Reclassification (2009):*
Paleontologist *Michael P. Taylor* conducted a detailed comparative study of Brachiosaurus specimens. In his 2009 paper, he formally elevated B. brancai to the full genus *Giraffatitan brancai*, citing significant anatomical differences (e.g., limb proportions, vertebral structures) from the North American Brachiosaurus altithorax.
> Thus, *Michael P. Taylor* is credited with the formal reassignment of the species to the genus Giraffatitan in *2009*.
If an AI agent understands you (and book writing, and the topic of the book) well enough then it should be able to write you a pretty nice bespoke book.
I do suspect that interactive media is just strictly better in theory. But maybe there will be a period of time where bespoke AI-generated books make sense.
I mean, obviously it's a numbers game. There are only so many hackers, but there are a lot of Ivy League people and FANG people. So YC chose to open their gates. Whether this will be a profitable decision is an open question.
I can tell just from looking at most recent YC founders that they're not hackers.
I could be wrong of course. I'm probably wrong. Maybe these people who are attractive, care about popular fashion and becoming popular on tweeter are actually just as capable hackers as all the hackers I actually know (none of whom care about those things). I admit YC probably knows better than me.
But if I'm not wrong, and these people really aren't hackers, it means YC has decided that normies > hackers when it comes to YC. I really don't predict that's going to end well for YC.
LLMs are already better than books for exploring some ideas. But in conversation form.
Until we get better versions of o1 that can generate insights over days and then communicate them in book form the loss of interactivity and personalisation makes LLM books pointless.
I mean, consistent mediocre releases is exactly what we have gotten out of OpenAI.
But we know they started training Orion in ~May. We know it takes months to train a frontier model. Lack of release isn't promising or worrying, it's just what one should expect. What is promising is the leaks about the high-quality synthetic data that Orion is training on. And the fact that OpenAI seems to be ahead of all the other labs which are only just now beginning training runs on next-gen models. OpenAI seems to have a lead on compute and on algorithmic innovation. A promising combination if there ever was one.
"just a regular LLM except [trained on very different data]."
I'm not saying there's some big moat, anyone can read https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.20050, but not all synthetic data is created equal. Strawberry I'm sure generates beautiful, valid chain-of-thought reasoning data. Wouldn't surprise me if OpenAI is just significantly ahead of the competition.
The article is literally presenting the case that crypto is ALL a scam (emphasis not mine). Obviously not true, and attempt at logical argumentation in article is painful.
DeepSeek R1 gets it right:
> The species formerly known as Brachiosaurus brancai was reassigned to its own genus, *Giraffatitan*, through a series of taxonomic revisions. The key steps were:
> 1. *Initial Proposal (1988):* Gregory S. Paul first suggested separating B. brancai from Brachiosaurus in 1988, proposing the informal name "Giraffatitan" as a subgenus. However, this was not widely accepted at the time.
> 2. *Formal Reclassification (2009):* Paleontologist *Michael P. Taylor* conducted a detailed comparative study of Brachiosaurus specimens. In his 2009 paper, he formally elevated B. brancai to the full genus *Giraffatitan brancai*, citing significant anatomical differences (e.g., limb proportions, vertebral structures) from the North American Brachiosaurus altithorax.
> Thus, *Michael P. Taylor* is credited with the formal reassignment of the species to the genus Giraffatitan in *2009*.