[simonw]

Hahaha, this is the first time I've seen the pelican thing described as "propaganda"!

One of the main reasons I do the pelican thing is that it's making fun of the industry:

1. The smartest model in the world still draws pelicans riding bicycles worse than a five year old.

2. It highlights how absurd the task of comparing these models is. Oh, so it scored 78 on Terminal Bench 2.1? It also drew a crap pelican.

> So you are saying in the end of that piece that chess players came out stronger?

That was an off-the-cuff remark on the podcast which I included in the transcript. It's not my overall thesis.

[ericpauley]

Staying out of the larger discussion, but:

> The smartest model in the world still draws pelicans riding bicycles worse than a five year old.

The bicycle is something that humans are famously bad at drawing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/18/the-h...

[solidasparagus]

I'm gonna need to see some proof on that 5-year-old-draws-pelicans-better claim.