The big AI story this week was the battle over the insane AI regulatory moratorium, which came dangerously close to passing. Ultimately, after Senator Blackburn realized her deal was no good and backed out of it, the dam broke, and ultimately the Senate voted 99-1 to strip the moratorium out of the BBB. I also covered last week's hopeful house hearing in detail, so we can remember this as a reference point.

Otherwise, plenty of other things happened but in terms of big items this was a relatively quiet week. Always enjoy such respites while they last. Next week we are told we are getting Grok 4.

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(00:50) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(02:39) It Is I, Claudius, Vender of Items

(05:36) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(06:10) GPT-4o Is An Absurd Sycophant

(06:50) Preserve Our History

(08:03) Fork In The Road

(09:43) On Your Marks

(11:06) Choose Your Fighter

(12:32) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(15:19) Goodhart's Law Strikes Again

(18:51) Get My Agent On The Line

(21:09) They Took Our Jobs

(22:36) Get Involved

(23:50) Introducing

(25:25) Copyright Confrontation

(27:00) Show Me the Money

(33:15) Quiet Speculations

(34:29) Minimum Viable Model

(39:14) Timelines

(41:25) Considering Chilling Out

(46:17) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(51:28) The Committee Recommends

(58:00) Chip City

(01:00:53) The Week in Audio

(01:05:33) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:15:53) Please Speak Directly Into The Microphone

(01:17:08) Gary Marcus Predicts

(01:22:10) The Vibes They Are A-Changing

(01:27:03) Misaligned!

(01:28:52) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:32:45) The Lighter Side

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