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Steve Jobs energy transference was so strong it was labelled a Reality Distortion Field. He could bend other people's perception of reality with one interaction. I don't think this is some mystical woo-woo energy. It's a combination of intensity, frame, belief, body language, optimism and vocal tonality.
Ok, so the rumor about OpenAI Orion is that it's "100 times more powerful than GPT-4".
Let's forget that this is ill-defined, and a rumor. It implies gruesomely superhuman generalist ability.
The tech media describes this potentiality like so:
"The model’s development builds on lessons from OpenAI’s past efforts to make interactions with AI more
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