*Last week Google introduced Gemini-3 and against all the benchmarks it easily beat all other AI's. However, its superiority did not last long. Yesterday Anthropic introduced Claude Opus-4.5 and it easily beat Gemini-3 in the ability to write computer code. One thing I found particularly interesting, since it started A**nthropic has always had a policy that before they hired anybody they gave them a notoriously difficult computer programming test that the applicant could take home and bring back the next day; they decided to give Claude Opus-4.5 that test and give it a two hour time limit to complete it. The result was Claude Opus-4.5 got a higher score on coding ability than ANY human candidate ever had! If that isn't screaming "recursive exponential improvement" I don't know what could. *
*And to think, some people are still worried about trivialities like the war on Christmas, illegal immigration, global warming, and the US not balancing the budget. * *Claude Opus 4.5 just dropped <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhuUcVhwqi8&list=WL&index=3>* *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 2df -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2Mff03NoFU2u_ZHDOnfPEzECjU%2BRJq6G8rnd0nr7DuyA%40mail.gmail.com.

