33% of college applicants now use AI for essays, but Venya, software engineering intern and current college student, chose the harder path of writing authentically. In this conversation, she shares what it was like to be a high school senior during the AI revolution, watching classmates secretly use ChatGPT while she stuck to her own voice. We explore the detection arms race, the death of differentiation in college essays, and whether authentic writing still matters in an AI-powered world.
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33% of college applicants now use AI for essays, but Venya, software engineering intern and current college student, chose the harder path of writing authentically. In this conversation, she shares what it was like to be a high school senior during the AI revolution, watching classmates secretly use ChatGPT while she stuck to her own voice. We explore the detection arms race, the death of differentiation in college essays, and whether authentic writing still matters in an AI-powered world.
The Reasoning Model Paradox: Why Smarter AI Hallucinates More
The AI Engineer's Diary
24 minutes
3 months ago
The Reasoning Model Paradox: Why Smarter AI Hallucinates More
OpenAI's latest reasoning models can solve complex physics problems and write sophisticated code better than some humans – but they're wrong about basic facts up to 79% of the time. How is that possible? In this deep dive, we unpack one of the most concerning trends in AI development: the reasoning model paradox. Despite being more capable than ever, models are hallucinating at unprecedented rates, with error rates that have doubled or even tripled compared to previous generations.
The AI Engineer's Diary
33% of college applicants now use AI for essays, but Venya, software engineering intern and current college student, chose the harder path of writing authentically. In this conversation, she shares what it was like to be a high school senior during the AI revolution, watching classmates secretly use ChatGPT while she stuck to her own voice. We explore the detection arms race, the death of differentiation in college essays, and whether authentic writing still matters in an AI-powered world.
