Break time is over, it would seem, now that the new administration is in town.

This week we got r1, DeepSeek's new reasoning model, which is now my go-to first choice for a large percentage of queries. The claim that this was the most important thing to happen on January 20, 2025 was at least non-crazy. If you read about one thing this week read about that.

We also got the announcement of Stargate, a claimed $500 billion private investment in American AI infrastructure. I will be covering that on its own soon.

Due to time limits I have also pushed coverage of a few things into next week, including this alignment paper, and I still owe my take on Deliberative Alignment.

The Trump administration came out swinging on many fronts with a wide variety of executive orders. For AI, that includes repeal of the [...]

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Outline:

(01:24) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(10:54) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(17:20) Huh, Upgrades

(20:03) Additional Notes on r1

(22:41) Fun With Media Generation

(23:18) We Tested Older LLMs and Are Framing It As a Failure

(26:56) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(32:10) They Took Our Jobs

(47:15) Get Involved

(47:54) Introducing

(51:38) We Had a Deal

(01:07:17) In Other AI News

(01:18:39) Whistling in the Dark

(01:22:03) Quiet Speculations

(01:28:09) Suchir's Last Post

(01:29:43) Modeling Lower Bound Economic Growth From AI

(01:34:42) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:39:53) The Week in Audio

(01:42:51) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:49:37) Cry Havoc

(01:53:14) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:59:34) People Strongly Dislike AI

(02:02:23) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(02:05:17) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(02:09:29) The Lighter Side

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