> they're largely using distillation techniques. Which means they'll always be catching up and never at the cutting edge.
You link to an assumption, and one that's seemingly highly motivated.
Have you used the Chinese models? IMO Kimi K2.5 beats everything but Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3.1... and it's not exactly inferior to the latter, it's just different. It's much better at most writing tasks, and its "Deep Research" mode is by a wide margin the best in the business. (OpenAI's has really gone downhill for some reason.)
This is absolute madness for a consulting firm, by the way. Anybody can log-in to Claude or Gemini and get "a report." Why pay Accenture to generate more or less the same report? They need to differentiate themselves from AI hard -- but it seems they're doing just the opposite.
There's a manifesto at the Zenodo link that was obviously written by a human. Not that I agree with it. It could have used some LLM editing, if you ask me.
Thank you very much for your support.
I wrote this text myself, but yes, I have been using computer tools since the 1980s for translations and text formatting.
GPT-4 was a world-shaking release. The best "AIs" (LLMs) of 2026 are only marginally better. The gap between 2023 and 2026 isn't nearly so large as you imply, especially insofar as "general" intelligence (not coding specifically) is concerned.
I trust your judgment. It's worth noting that I'm talking about the publicly available versions of GPT chat, the free version available to everyone.
I also tried to explain that I'm probably not talking about the tool's various capabilities, but rather how and when I learned to use it effectively in my small niche of users.
Kimi-K2.5 is probably the top text model for writing and any form of artistic or creative pursuit, and its "Deep Research" mode is better than GPT-5.2's. I use it alongside Opus 4.6, and I don't feel that one is "worse" than the other; they have different strengths.
> Take, for example, a $5.4 million brownstone in Brooklyn’s Park Slope. Its annual property tax bill is around $12,000 — about 0.2 percent of the home’s overall worth. Now compare that with the $7,500 tax bill for a $780,000 home in the Bronx. The cheaper home has an effective property tax rate almost four times higher.
> Both bills are lower than in much of the suburbs, where property taxes for less valuable homes routinely top $25,000.
American property tax is crazy just in general. In many well-developed countries -- including China, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and others -- property taxes are literally zero or strictly nominal.
At what point are you just "renting from the government"?
> America has no past for the present to reflect off.
Well, what do you mean by "past"?
European settlement in America has a very long history, which of course extends back to the 17th century. It has a rich intellectual tradition, in which respects it surpasses many European countries -- and many of the dominant strains of thought today have their roots in America. It has an exceptionally rich literary and artistic tradition, with numerous styles which are characteristically American. In scientific achievement, few countries can compete. It even has its own aesthetic, just as Japan does.
You could say that Japan is regressing from modernity into older ways of being, but this is far from true. Japan before Meiji was strictly aristocratic and feudal. The average Japanese family were tenant farmers with zero political power, economic power, and near-zero potential for advancement in society.
If anything, Japan is apparently regressing into an American-style older way of being. A pre-New-Deal manner, with big winners, bigger and more numerous losers, and increased social strife. Also, the atomization the article picks up on isn't a Ye Olde Japanese thing; it's very American.
There's a joke in the race world that White Americans have no culture so they have to steal other people's culture.
This is relatively true and largely because the US has little history compared to other nations. That's part of why so many facets of American society and history are nonsense myths, such as the American West myth. So much of US culture and history is made up ego stuff.
Sounds like you are the one who has bought into myths created to fit a modern narrative.
Isn't the UKs historical 'shared identity' way more of a myth than the American west? I mean my grandmother from the midwest still had stories that would have fit any western novel, and her parents spoke German and were the 'poor midwest farm settler' family straight out of the west. My other grandmother has kachina dolls in her living room that her family was gifted for helping out a local village. My town has opium dens dug out next to the railroad from during it's construction. I have visited a ton of ghost towns.
The 'American West' isn't a myth, reality is just somewhat different then what actually happened. But the same can be said for any simplified history of any nations myths.
The history of white America starts when white Americans decided they were people and non-white people weren't and thus "their history" needed to be separated as "white history"
A lot, the period from National Romanticism onward is the most relevant for any form of study of a "nation".
Before that you could only think in terms of loosely connected realms/kingdoms, before more in terms of tribes and some city-states. Those aren't that useful to study to understand the present, from the 17th century is where most of the current culture branched out from.
The historical connection to the land from the people/tribes living in territories of modern Europe from before the Middle Ages is more akin to studying Native Americans in the USA, they were the people inhabiting the land, they had their traditions, and some of those traditions were used to forge the national identity of present cultures but there's a lot of this national identity that was myth-making by National Romantics to generate a sense of unity needed for creating the nation and nation-states.
A lot! The majority, surely. The period from the 18th through the close of the 20th centuries was a time of tremendous upheaval, where nations were forged. German students, for instance, don't spend all of their time on the HRE; they tend to focus more on the nation-forming events of the 18th and 19th centuries, and then of course the 20th.
Of course, students also learn ancient and ancient-adjacent history -- the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Charlemagne, etc. -- but this is general and isn't unique to any national tradition, but common to the entire continent.
ChatGPT does this just as much, maybe even more, across every model they've ever released to the public.
How did both Claude and GPT end up with such a similar stylistic quirk?
I'd add that Kimi does it sometimes, but much less frequently. (Kimi, in general, is a better writer with a more neutral voice.) I don't have enough experience with Gemini or Deepseek to say.
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