Reproducing Stanford’s Mirage Paper: When Frontier AI Models Hallucinate Entire Images

A Stanford team led by Fei-Fei Li reveals that frontier multimodal models—GPT-5, Gemini-3-Pro, Claude Opus 4.5—confidently describe images that were never provided, achieving top benchmark scores without visual input. The implications for medical AI are alarming.

Breaking the Data Barrier: My Deep Dive into the CCD Breakthrough for Few-Shot AI

The dream of AI has always been to match human efficiency—learning a new concept from a single glance. In my Istanbul lab, I recently tackled the reproduction of the paper “Learning Conditional Class Dependencies: A Breakthrough in Few-Shot Classification.” Standard models treat every class as an isolated island. If a model sees a “Scooter” for the … Read more

The Thinking Illusion: Stress-Testing “Reasoning” Models on My Local Rig

We’ve all seen the benchmarks. The new “Reasoning” models (like the o1 series or fine-tuned Llama-3 variants) claim to possess human-like logic. But after building my dual-RTX 4080 lab and running these models on bare-metal Ubuntu, I’ve started to see the cracks in the mirror. Is it true “System 2” thinking, or just an incredibly … Read more