Sara Hooker says frontier labs are paying large sums for old Slack threads, bankrupt airline logs, and deprecated company archives. She argues the smartest models will be shaped by how they interact with the real world and by the real-world signal they incorporate.
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Frontier labs are paying obscene amounts for old Slack threads, bankrupt airline logs, and deprecated company archives for one reason.
The smartest model is no longer built in isolation. It’s about how models interact with the real world, and incorporate real world signal.
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