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Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · May 10

What’s the next number in this sequence (just handed to me by my 6yo son).

Simple but stumped me and GPT.

Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · May 8

Today, I gave an informal seminar to students and faculty on the accelerating impact new AI models like o3 will have on research and how to navigate those changes.

Check it out👇

Resistance is Futile: AGI-Augmented Research and the New Scientific Method youtu.be/x6gv68fHw7Q?... via @YouTube

Resistance is Futile: AGI-Augmented Research and the New Scientific Method

YouTube video by Samuel Hires

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Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · May 7

Best view at USC.

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Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · May 6

Unfortunately all my submissions are outstanding, so I don’t have the appropriate test set. 😅

I expect you could easily put the finger on the scale to be more aggressive in critiques with an o3-level model though. For future explorations…

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Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · May 6

It's been 3.5 months since this experiment on scientific reasoning. The improvements in SOTA models since are remarkable.

Here's OpenAI's o3 model's first attempt at reviewing my 2017 R01-A1 submission. Would you do a better job?

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Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · May 5

Come on, you didn’t have just a twinge of curiosity about the experience of being assimilating into a galactically powerful collective super-intelligence? A bit of doubt that we, the humans, were the baddies?

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Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · May 5

The latest reasoning models (o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro), hold more knowledge, reason better, and communicate more clearly than you or me.

If you aren’t trying to integrate them to all elements of the research workflow, you are doing yourself and your trainees a disservice. Resistance is futile.

a man with a robotic helmet on his head and the words `` resistance is futile '' written on the bottom .

ALT: a man with a robotic helmet on his head and the words `` resistance is futile '' written on the bottom .

media.tenor.com

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Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · Apr 30

If you don't realize that AGI is already here, you must be too lazy or incurious to try o3.

Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · Mar 11

Noooooo Spotify account needed. Not sure they have my bangers.

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Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · Mar 11

I have some new heaters.

Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · Feb 8

Occasionally

Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · Jan 26

Testing out DeepSeek-R1's ability to do "science" in one-shot.

I asked it to critique my 2017 R01 proposal (Impact 26, 10%, funded by NINDS. I wrote the proposal, have rights to share it.

It's first-shot response is indistinguishable from a median quality reviewer's.

What do we do now?

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Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · Jan 8

If anyone wants to follow along, I have a bunch of media posts on X. Sorry no time to duplicate.

Pacific Palisades is mostly destroyed. Half my friends have lost their homes. Mine not gone yet but not looking good.