I remember that week I used r1 a lot, and everyone was obsessed with DeepSeek.

They earned it. DeepSeek cooked, r1 is an excellent model. Seeing the Chain of Thought was revolutionary. We all learned a lot.

It's still #1 in the app store, there are still hysterical misinformed NYT op-eds and and calls for insane reactions in all directions and plenty of jingoism to go around, largely based on that highly misleading $6 millon cost number for DeepSeek's v3, and a misunderstanding of how AI capability curves move over time.

But like the tariff threats that's now so yesterday now, for those of us that live in the unevenly distributed future.

All my reasoning model needs go through o3-mini-high, and Google's fully unleashed Flash Thinking for free. Everyone is exploring OpenAI's Deep Research, even in its early form, and I finally have an entity [...]

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Outline:

(01:15) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(07:23) o1-Pro Offers Mundane Utility

(10:35) We're in Deep Research

(17:08) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(17:49) Model Decision Tree

(20:43) Huh, Upgrades

(21:57) Bot Versus Bot

(24:04) The OpenAI Unintended Guidelines

(26:40) Peter Wildeford on DeepSeek

(29:18) Our Price Cheap

(35:25) Otherwise Seeking Deeply

(44:13) Smooth Operator

(46:46) Have You Tried Not Building An Agent?

(51:58) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(54:56) They Took Our Jobs

(01:08:29) The Art of the Jailbreak

(01:08:56) Get Involved

(01:13:05) Introducing

(01:13:45) In Other AI News

(01:16:37) Theory of the Firm

(01:21:32) Quiet Speculations

(01:24:36) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:33:33) The Week in Audio

(01:34:41) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:38:22) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:40:33) The Alignment Faking Analysis Continues

(01:44:24) Masayoshi Son Follows Own Advice

(01:48:22) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:50:32) You Are Not Ready

(02:00:45) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(02:02:53) The Lighter Side

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