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“AI #117: OpenAI Buys Device Maker IO” by Zvi
What a week, huh? America signed a truly gigantic chip sales agreement with UAE and KSA that could be anything from reasonable to civilizational suicide depending on security arrangements and implementation details, Google announced all the things, OpenAI dropped Codex and also bought Jony Ive's device company for $6.5 billion, Vance talked about reading AI 2027 (surprise, in a good way!) and all that other stuff.
Lemon, it's Thursday, you’ve got movie tickets for Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning (19th and Broadway AMC, 3pm), an evening concert tonight from Light Sweet Crude and there's a livestream from Anthropic coming up at 12:30pm eastern, the non-AI links are piling up and LessOnline is coming in a few weeks. Can’t go backwards and there's no time to spin anything else out of the weekly. Got to go forward to go back. Better press on.
So for the moment, here we [...]
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Outline:
(01:11) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(04:43) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility
(09:12) Huh, Upgrades
(09:30) Codex of Ultimate Vibing
(11:37) On Your Marks
(11:55) Choose Your Fighter
(14:01) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(18:33) Copyright Confrontation
(19:34) Regarding South Africa
(20:01) Cheaters Gonna Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat
(25:00) They Took Our Jobs
(32:47) The Art of the Jailbreak
(32:54) Get Involved
(33:50) In Other AI News
(37:45) Much Ado About Malaysia
(46:21) Show Me the Money
(47:23) Quiet Speculations
(57:00) Autonomous Dancing Robots
(01:00:32) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(01:05:29) The Mask Comes Off
(01:11:28) The Week in Audio
(01:13:39) Write That Essay
(01:14:37) Vance on AI
(01:22:57) Rhetorical Innovation
(01:31:10) Margaritaville
(01:35:53) Rhetorical Lack of Innovation
(01:38:19) If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
(01:50:14) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(01:53:30) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
(01:55:58) The Lighter Side
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First published:
May 22nd, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JqCx7Eeb9gv9Ke5gv/ai-117-openai-buys-device-maker-io
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By LessWrongWhat a week, huh? America signed a truly gigantic chip sales agreement with UAE and KSA that could be anything from reasonable to civilizational suicide depending on security arrangements and implementation details, Google announced all the things, OpenAI dropped Codex and also bought Jony Ive's device company for $6.5 billion, Vance talked about reading AI 2027 (surprise, in a good way!) and all that other stuff.
Lemon, it's Thursday, you’ve got movie tickets for Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning (19th and Broadway AMC, 3pm), an evening concert tonight from Light Sweet Crude and there's a livestream from Anthropic coming up at 12:30pm eastern, the non-AI links are piling up and LessOnline is coming in a few weeks. Can’t go backwards and there's no time to spin anything else out of the weekly. Got to go forward to go back. Better press on.
So for the moment, here we [...]
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Outline:
(01:11) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(04:43) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility
(09:12) Huh, Upgrades
(09:30) Codex of Ultimate Vibing
(11:37) On Your Marks
(11:55) Choose Your Fighter
(14:01) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(18:33) Copyright Confrontation
(19:34) Regarding South Africa
(20:01) Cheaters Gonna Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat
(25:00) They Took Our Jobs
(32:47) The Art of the Jailbreak
(32:54) Get Involved
(33:50) In Other AI News
(37:45) Much Ado About Malaysia
(46:21) Show Me the Money
(47:23) Quiet Speculations
(57:00) Autonomous Dancing Robots
(01:00:32) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(01:05:29) The Mask Comes Off
(01:11:28) The Week in Audio
(01:13:39) Write That Essay
(01:14:37) Vance on AI
(01:22:57) Rhetorical Innovation
(01:31:10) Margaritaville
(01:35:53) Rhetorical Lack of Innovation
(01:38:19) If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
(01:50:14) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(01:53:30) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
(01:55:58) The Lighter Side
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First published:
May 22nd, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JqCx7Eeb9gv9Ke5gv/ai-117-openai-buys-device-maker-io
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.
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