Cal Newport

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22,298 appearances 39 recordings 5 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 6d ago

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Deep Questions with Cal Newport · How Worrisome is GPT-6’s “Stealth Thinking”? | Tech Decoded · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

So you have less of this sort of reasoning to be monitored. podcast-host

All right, that's the setup. podcast-host

Let's talk about what's good. podcast-host

Let's talk about what's bad. podcast-host

Let's talk about what is hype about this news. podcast-host

All right, if we want to look at this from the good angle, and again, the only perspective I care about is for you and me, the consumer out there in the market who is going to use these products and face the brunt of any of their negative side effects. podcast-host

All right, so what is potentially good about this news? podcast-host

Well, it's cheaper to run and smaller. podcast-host

That's important. podcast-host

Chain of thought, this is my take, or a hot take here, chain of thought reasoning is not sustainable. podcast-host

This idea of having this long string of token outputs to try to get better results, I think was just a response to a marketing problem. podcast-host

The hyperscalers had to show we're continuing to make progress because they weren't making a lot of money yet. podcast-host

So they have to show we have these models are getting better and better because they were selling the future. podcast-host

We're going to get to a place where these models are so smart that it's going to be in everything. podcast-host

And so we should be a $2 trillion company. podcast-host

So they needed results. podcast-host

And they weren't necessarily getting the obvious, just the user sitting down and using GPT-4 and being blown away style improvements anymore. podcast-host

And the scaling wasn't even helping them on benchmarks. podcast-host

But this made benchmark numbers go up. podcast-host

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