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Make Skyrim 💁🐉
Remind me when the Internet admired Gopnik flying on a magic carpet among Russian apartment blocks? Not even a year has passed since we discussed Genie 3—and now a new hero has entered the scene.
Make Skyrim 💁♂️🐉
Remember when half the internet was admiring a gopnik flying on a magic carpet among Russian apartment blocks? Not even a year has passed since we discussed the capabilities of Genie 3. And now a new hero has entered the scene.
Enthusiasts are experimenting with Anthropic’s Claude Fable model. A working copy of Minecraft was recently generated with version 4.8 from one f*#@$&!ing text prompt. The newest flagship, Claude Fable 5, has raised the bar even higher by making a copy of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Once again, it took a single prompt: “make Skyrim.”
This case confirms that an advanced user is becoming almost omnipotent. At the moment, the main constraint is the safety restrictions built into public language models. It is frightening to imagine what holders of US government security credentials might do with Claude Mythos 5—the intelligence-services counterpart to Fable 5 😮
Where is the world heading? Toward a future in which everything that can be automated with genuine benefit will be automated. A business hypothesis with only a moderate potential impact used to be unworthy of testing because validation was expensive. Now prototyping costs are falling dramatically, and even modest ideas will make it to MVP. Incidentally, an MVP no longer necessarily requires a programmer. With an LLM at the level of Codex 5.5, and especially Claude Fable 5, you can approach a task like making a wish to a genie: solve a problem in almost any field, including making yourself rich 🍸 Sounds like magic? Remember Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.