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“AI #119: Goodbye AISI?” by Zvi


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AISI is being rebranded highly non-confusingly as CAISI. Is it the end of AISI and a huge disaster, or a tactical renaming to calm certain people down? Hard to tell. It could go either way. Sometimes you need to target the people who call things ‘big beautiful bill,’ and hey, the bill in question is indeed big. It contains multitudes.

The AI world also contains multitudes. We got Cursor 1.0, time to get coding.

On a personal note, this was the week of LessOnline, which was predictably great. I am sad that I could not stay longer, but as we all know, duty calls. Back to the grind.

Table of Contents

  1. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. The white whale.
  2. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. You need a system prompt.
  3. Language Models Could Offer More Mundane Utility. A good set of asks.
  4. [...]

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    Outline:

    (00:54) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

    (05:00) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

    (08:04) Language Models Could Offer More Mundane Utility

    (12:13) Huh, Upgrades

    (16:20) Fun With Media Generation

    (22:07) Choose Your Fighter

    (30:14) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

    (31:41) Get My Agent On The Line

    (35:51) They Took Our Jobs

    (48:41) The Art of the Jailbreak

    (51:15) Unprompted Attention

    (59:14) Get Involved

    (59:39) Introducing

    (01:01:18) In Other AI News

    (01:04:04) Show Me the Money

    (01:07:57) Quiet Speculations

    (01:14:10) Taking Off

    (01:15:47) Goodbye AISI?

    (01:21:27) The Quest for Sane Regulations

    (01:29:50) Copyright Confrontation

    (01:32:56) Differential Access

    (01:35:37) The Week in Audio

    (01:36:17) When David Sacks Says 'Win the AI Race' He Literally Means Market Share

    (01:37:50) Rhetorical Innovation

    (01:41:44) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

    (01:45:49) Misaligned!

    (01:52:41) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

    (01:54:16) The Lighter Side

    The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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    First published:

    June 5th, 2025

    Source:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D3BjqZ26ouk7ctfRC/ai-119-goodbye-aisi

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