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Posted by plurby 1 day ago

GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car(drivingbench.com)
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123917 1 day ago|
https://x.com/tobiges/status/2098294046469022030

"Sam understands exponentials like no other. During a YC talk last year he predicted that AI would make breakthroughs in science in 2026 and solve a major open problem in 2027. Now here we are..."

Now on a new vibe coded website Astra wins the benchmarks ...

aditya-ramabadr 23 hours ago|
Haha fair point, we didn't juice anything though! You can see all the traces and videos on the website, for example, here's one of Claude Fable's attempts: https://drivingbench.com/trace/claude-fable-5.1/3/ . The code is also open source on GitHub. Also in the Report you can see how we did everything; there's obviously variance but if you try a similar thing yourself the results would probably be similar?

- Aditya, Tobias, Simon

dgellow 23 hours ago||
> During a YC talk last year he predicted that AI would make breakthroughs in science in 2026 and solve a major open problem in 2027

Pretty much everybody “predicted” this fwiw.

WarmWash 1 day ago||
3.8 flash would be the model to test, it's vision capabilities are excellent (on par with Astra) while also being incredibly fast.
onlyrealcuzzo 1 day ago||
This is quite impressive...

But I imagine this is orders of magnitude more expensive / less efficient than whatever Waymo is already doing, right?

The cool thing is that 1) it's theoretically more generalizable, 2) if we wait 18 months, it'll be 100x cheaper, and another 100x cheaper likely in 18 more months - at that point - something like a Mac Studio inside a humanoid could have these generalized capabilities, and a lot of Robotics problems start to look more feasible - especially when you consider how much better the models could be if highly specialized.

famouswaffles 1 day ago||
There isn't any model out there even close to as good as Astra at visual/spatial reasoning.
WarmWash 1 day ago||
Gemini models punch way above their weight in vision tasks

https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/mmmu-pro

RomanKornev 19 hours ago||
Looking forward to the inevitable "Astra can land a plane now, with no autopilot"
Bluestein 1 day ago||
Oh, lord. They are going to Jev this.-
thenthenthen 1 day ago||
Self Jevving Car
72deluxe 1 day ago|||
Hopefully it has a built-in jev-limiter.
Bluestein 1 day ago|||
I think you might have won the internet today.-
coffeebeqn 22 hours ago|||
I’m gone for a day and I already have no idea what people are talking about
Bluestein 22 hours ago||
Day? You are lucky. My F5 finger is sore!
pietz 1 day ago|||
In all fairness, this would be one of the better use cases of Jev I've seen.
brcmthrowaway 1 day ago||
Huh? SDCs basically use a form of Jev.

Jev is the union of these two worlds.

rzzzt 19 hours ago||
Toshiba's postal code reader from the late 60s is also Jev. Always has been.
rpcope1 22 hours ago||
That doesn't surprise me with Astra, but having been crazy myself and put Claude on the canbus on a couple of cars, I've borne witness to it stomping out frames and generally being very stupid to the point of it triggering the mandatory red SendFeedback to Dario when it realizes it's killed the gauge cluster or tcs/abs while the car is moving along. I still wouldn't advise letting even a frontier LLM interact with your car, after doing a lot of unfathomably stupid tests.

Disclosure: all stunts were attempted on a closed course, you should leave dangerous hardware hacking to professional dumbasses.

SwellJoe 21 hours ago||
The good news is that I can still walk and outrun the AI driving a car.
throwitaway222 23 hours ago||
It has not, driving a car requires driving at realistic speeds.
blorenz 1 day ago||
Pivot this to analyze and coach human drivers to be better drivers.
anthonyrstevens 1 day ago|
"Get off your phone!" "Stay right except to pass!"

I could get behind this.

mlmonkey 1 day ago||
What about Jev? :-D
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