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AI capability milestones

Attention around AI capability milestones is about usual, and has not moved over the last 24 hours.

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Signals

What moved

The largest movements across forecasts, attention, discussion sentiment and reporting in the last 24 hours, each compared with how much that topic usually moves.

Nothing moved beyond its usual range over this window. 29 measurements were compared.

29 changes were compared.

Across signals

No relationships between signals were detected this week. Checked 1 topic: 1 had a forecast contract moving well outside its usual range and 0 had unusually high public attention, and none of them showed a second layer doing something measurable at the same time.

What was reported

Occurrences reported on this topic, the most widely reported first. One entry per occurrence, however many outlets carried it, and the count on each is the outlets that reported it independently.

  1. These firms you've never heard of are feeding fears the AI bubble could burst opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    BBC News

  2. Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’ opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    TechCrunch

  3. Medicare used AI to pre-approve patient care, and it immediately led to a large drop in medical services

    1 independent origin · low confidence

5 further occurrences on this page — show them
  1. As big bitcoin miners chase AI profits, individuals get another shot at the rewards opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    CoinDesk

  2. Is AI your new wingman? How chatbots are transforming dating opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    The Guardian

  3. Humans are still doing the work behind some AI agents opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    CNBC

  4. Relying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it | Carly Dober opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    The Guardian

  5. AI is coming to construction sites. But does it make workers safer? opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    CNBC

What people are discussing

Posts and shared links on the discussion platforms this site reads that are about this topic, over the last two days, the most discussed first. Titles are the platform's own. Counts are the platform's where it publishes them, and otherwise the comments or shares this site read; none of it is a figure this site calculates.

  1. Sam Altman Absolutely Hates the Idea of People Running Their Own AI Models at Home, Argues They Shouldn’t Own Computers: He'd prefer if we surrender all our RAM to data centers. opens in a new tab

    280 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  2. AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them opens in a new tab

    203 comments269 pointsHacker Newsdiscussion opens in a new tab

  3. US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears opens in a new tab

    193 comments195 pointsHacker Newsdiscussion opens in a new tab

7 more posts — show them
  1. Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' opens in a new tab

    178 comments210 pointsHacker Newsdiscussion opens in a new tab

  2. Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’ opens in a new tab

    158 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  3. Tech stocks set to wipe out more than $1 trillion as concerns deepen about the AI boom opens in a new tab

    149 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  4. Sam Altman Says Gen Z Are Lame for Not Worshipping AI: "They always want to go do the thing that was cool five years ago." opens in a new tab

    100 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  5. Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era? opens in a new tab

    96 comments100 pointsHacker Newsdiscussion opens in a new tab

  6. Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months — president plucks former startup founder, telling him to 'go nuts'. opens in a new tab

    70 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  7. Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's code opens in a new tab

    61 comments46 pointsHacker Newsdiscussion opens in a new tab

Forecast contracts

One row per source's own question. These are listed side by side for comparison and are not combined into a single figure — each source is answering its own question, in its own words.

  1. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    62%somewhat likely±0.0 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
  2. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    47%about even±0.4 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
  3. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    5%unlikely±0.2 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
11 further contracts on this topic — show them
  1. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    50%about even±0.0 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
  2. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    56%about even+1.2 ptsup over the last 24 hours
  3. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    72%somewhat likely±0.0 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
  4. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    6%unlikely−1.0 ptsdown over the last 24 hours
  5. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    10%unlikely±0.0 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
  6. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    90%likelyNo movement recorded over 24 hours
  7. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    23%somewhat unlikely±0.0 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
  8. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    10%unlikely±0.0 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
  9. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    94%likely±0.0 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
  10. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    9%unlikely±0.4 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
  11. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    81%likely±0.0 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours

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Sources

3 contributing sources — view breakdown

Attention

  • Hacker NewsPublic discussion66.8
  • Future Index internal search and pageviewsSearch & activity72.1
  • Wikimedia Pageviews (Analytics API)Search & activity38.0

How the attention figure is calculated · method version 3.0.0 · What these figures do not say