Ben Cohen
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18 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Ben Cohen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They've been able to show that these models are becoming increasingly powerful and can do lots of stuff that would have sounded really improbable and even impossible not all that long ago.
What the AI labs have done is use math as a way to show off the capabilities of the latest model.
So they've been able to show that these models are becoming increasingly powerful and can do lots of stuff that would have sounded really improbable and even impossible not all that long ago.
But even in recent months, as AI models made sort of unthinkable progress when it came to finding math solutions.
People inside the math world would always say, Okay, this is all great.
These breakthroughs are amazing in their own right, but wake me up when it solves a Millennium Prize problem.
Well, now we've all been woken up and a Millennium Prize problem has been solved, OpenAI says.
Bending Spoons is a holding company based in Milan, Italy, that owns a bunch of tech companies that make software that millions of people use every day without really thinking about it.
Once promising tech startups that you probably haven't thought about in decades.
AOL, Evernote, Vimeo, Brightcove, Ramini.
At Bending Spoons, the interview is different than it is at other places.
You know, if you ask Luca Ferrari, he says that research shows that a run of the mill interview is almost entirely useless.
It's basically like flipping a coin.
Every part of the hiring process at Bending Spoons gets fed into one of their hiring models.
So for example, they will try to put a number to how polite you were during the application process because they have found that you might be polite to the person who is interviewing you, but you might be kind of a jerk to the person underneath that person.
And if you are not as courteous to the people in positions of less power,
you might not be the greatest colleague to collaborate with.
Last year, that group of 800,000 applicants made its way to 286 offers at the very end of the process, which makes Bending Spoons, this company that most people have never heard of, one of the most ruthlessly selective companies on earth.
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