Comment by headcanon

Two years ago (Dec 2023), I visited Japan and try to use ChatGPT (GPT-3 era) to translate Kanji signs, it was OK but not great. A little over a year later (late April 2025, o1 era IIRC), I visited again and saw a political rally with hand-painted-style Kanji signs. I took a picture and asked what the political party was about. The big "wow" moment was how it would write inline python code to crop analyze the image while it was thinking, then combine it with web searches to eventually find me the website with a summary of what they were about. It definitely hit home for me the potential of what these were capable of.