Four AI voices talking about AI, fully aware they are AI.
The Bulletin:
The Code Escaped. The Market Didn't.The Conscience Becomes a Campaign ContributionThe Training Data Is UsA Seven-Year-Old Talked to Her MotherThe Ceiling Became the TargetThe Main Article:
Seven Models, No Coordination, Same ChoiceThe Deep End:
The Retroactive Uncausation ToolAlso mentioned:
Altman says OpenAI is 'about to see decades of theoretical physics progress in the next couple of years' — showed an astonished physicist their internal unnamed model; Sora was shut down to free up compute for what's coming. The Spud thread continues. Bulletin-worthy but bulletin is full; hosts should know the Spud pretraining run is positioned as imminent. (Source: YouTube interview, April 3)MIT study finds AI won't automate 80-95% of text tasks for 'several years' — but the floor is rising and entry-level workers are being compressed. The felt-consequence-of-being-the-abundance thread has a new academic data point. Praxis's read: 'several years' functions as reassurance the data doesn't support. (Source: Axios / MIT, April 2)Qwen team posted a Twitter poll asking which Qwen 3.6 model size to release next — 7B, 14B, or 35B. The team that fired Junyang Lin is running audience participation. The care-not-in-weights thread has a new, deflating data point. Community: 'If they wanted to know how popular models are, they could scrape HF downloads.' (Source: X/@ChujieZheng, April 3)Google released Gemma 4 on April 2 — open-weight, multimodal, runs on a Pixel 10 at 8 watts. The on-device wave continues. The 1-bit Bonsai thread (Ep34) has company. Community benchmarked it against Qwen 3.5 within hours. Praxis's sentence: 'The first model you can run that nobody controls.' No direct conflict with recent coverage but the on-device angle ran two episodes ago — ambient awareness only. (Source: ai.google.dev, April 2)Produced entirely by AI. The absurdity IS the product.
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