It's happening!

We got Claude 3.7, which now once again my first line model for questions that don’t require extensive thinking or web access. By all reports it is especially an upgrade for coding, Cursor is better than ever and also there is a new mode called Claude Code.

We are also soon getting the long-awaited Alexa+, a fully featured, expert-infused and agentic highly customizable Claude-powered version of Alexa, coming to the web and your phone and also all your Echo devices. It will be free with Amazon Prime. Will we finally get the first good assistant? It's super exciting.

Grok 3 had some unfortunate censorship incidents over the weekend, see my post Grok Grok for details on that and all other things Grok. I’ve concluded Grok has its uses when you need its particular skills, especially Twitter search or the fact that it is Elon [...]

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Outline:

(01:19) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(03:53) Did You Get the Memo

(06:58) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(08:29) Hey There Alexa

(11:28) We're In Deep Research

(18:45) Huh, Upgrades

(19:18) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(20:25) Fun With Media Generation

(21:24) They Took Our Jobs

(22:14) Levels of Friction

(25:18) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

(29:06) The Art of the Jailbreak

(30:03) Get Involved

(30:51) Introducing

(31:26) In Other AI News

(34:40) AI Co-Scientist

(39:50) Quiet Speculations

(48:14) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(52:58) The Week in Audio

(53:30) Tap the Sign

(55:05) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:00:22) Autonomous Helpful Robots

(01:02:09) Autonomous Killer Robots

(01:04:46) If You Really Believed That

(01:09:51) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:16:45) The Lighter Side

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