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“AI #121 Part 1: New Connections” by Zvi


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That's right. I said Part 1. The acceleration continues.

I do not intend to let this be a regular thing. I will (once again!) be raising the bar for what gets included going forward to prevent that. But for now, we’ve hit my soft limit, so I’m splitting things in two, mostly by traditional order but there are a few things, especially some videos, that I’m hoping to get to properly before tomorrow, and also I’m considering spinning out my coverage of The OpenAI Files.

Tomorrow in Part 2 we’ll deal with, among other things, several new videos, various policy disputes and misalignment fun that includes the rising number of people being driven crazy.

Table of Contents

  1. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. How much do people use LLMs so far?
  2. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. Can’t always get what you want.
  3. [...]
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    Outline:

    (00:53) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

    (03:12) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

    (09:53) Humans Do Not Offer Mundane Utility

    (10:59) Langage Models Should Remain Available

    (12:51) Get My Agent On The Line

    (15:45) Have My Agent Call Their Agent

    (18:09) Beware Prompt Injections

    (21:13) Unprompted Attention

    (23:18) Huh, Upgrades

    (26:02) Memories

    (27:56) Cheaters Gonna Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat

    (36:40) On Your Marks

    (40:05) Fun With Media Generation

    (41:20) Copyright Confrontation

    (45:13) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

    (50:28) Liar Liar

    (52:25) They Took Our Jobs

    (54:18) No, Not Those Jobs

    (58:37) All The Jobs Everywhere All At Once

    (01:04:44) The Void

    (01:05:58) Into the Void

    (01:06:49) The Art of the Jailbreak

    (01:07:18) Get Involved

    (01:07:32) Introducing

    (01:07:55) In Other AI News

    (01:13:26) Show Me the Money

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    First published:

    June 19th, 2025

    Source:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ya7WfFXThJ6cn4Cqz/ai-121-part-1-new-connections

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