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“AI #124: Grokless Interlude” by Zvi
Last night, on the heels of some rather unfortunate incidents involving the Twitter version of Grok 3, xAI released Grok 4. There are some impressive claimed benchmarks. As per usual, I will wait a few days so others can check it out, and then offer my take early next week, and this post otherwise won’t discuss Grok 4 further.
There are plenty of other things to look into while we wait for that.
I am also not yet covering Anthropic's latest alignment faking paper, which may well get its own post.
Table of Contents
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Outline:
(00:43) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(05:08) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility
(06:57) Huh, Upgrades
(07:53) Preserve Our History
(11:18) Choose Your Fighter
(12:36) Wouldn't You Prefer A Good Game of Chess
(14:30) Fun With Media Generation
(14:40) No Grok No
(16:29) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(19:15) Unprompted Attention
(20:11) Overcoming Bias
(22:18) Get My Agent On The Line
(23:40) They Took Our Jobs
(27:59) Get Involved
(28:27) Introducing
(30:11) In Other AI News
(32:28) Show Me the Money
(34:59) The Explanation Is Always Transaction Costs
(37:56) Quiet Speculations
(44:23) Genesis
(46:29) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(52:06) Chip City
(52:28) Choosing The Right Regulatory Target
(01:00:42) The Week in Audio
(01:01:15) Rhetorical Innovation
(01:04:33) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(01:10:10) Don't Worry We Have Human Oversight
(01:14:09) Don't Worry We Have Chain Of Thought Monitoring
(01:18:47) Sycophancy Is Hard To Fix
(01:21:43) The Lighter Side
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First published:
July 10th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FczrW2kQ7WxGW39Yv/ai-124-grokless-interlude
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Last night, on the heels of some rather unfortunate incidents involving the Twitter version of Grok 3, xAI released Grok 4. There are some impressive claimed benchmarks. As per usual, I will wait a few days so others can check it out, and then offer my take early next week, and this post otherwise won’t discuss Grok 4 further.
There are plenty of other things to look into while we wait for that.
I am also not yet covering Anthropic's latest alignment faking paper, which may well get its own post.
Table of Contents
---
Outline:
(00:43) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(05:08) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility
(06:57) Huh, Upgrades
(07:53) Preserve Our History
(11:18) Choose Your Fighter
(12:36) Wouldn't You Prefer A Good Game of Chess
(14:30) Fun With Media Generation
(14:40) No Grok No
(16:29) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(19:15) Unprompted Attention
(20:11) Overcoming Bias
(22:18) Get My Agent On The Line
(23:40) They Took Our Jobs
(27:59) Get Involved
(28:27) Introducing
(30:11) In Other AI News
(32:28) Show Me the Money
(34:59) The Explanation Is Always Transaction Costs
(37:56) Quiet Speculations
(44:23) Genesis
(46:29) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(52:06) Chip City
(52:28) Choosing The Right Regulatory Target
(01:00:42) The Week in Audio
(01:01:15) Rhetorical Innovation
(01:04:33) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(01:10:10) Don't Worry We Have Human Oversight
(01:14:09) Don't Worry We Have Chain Of Thought Monitoring
(01:18:47) Sycophancy Is Hard To Fix
(01:21:43) The Lighter Side
---
First published:
July 10th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FczrW2kQ7WxGW39Yv/ai-124-grokless-interlude
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
---
Images from the article:
Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.
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