This was Anthropic Vision week where at DWATV, which caused things to fall a bit behind on other fronts even within AI. Several topics are getting pushed forward, as the Christmas lull appears to be over.

Upcoming schedule: Friday will cover Dario's essay The Adolescence of Technology. Monday will cover Kimi K2.5, which is potentially a big deal. Tuesday is scheduled to be Claude Code #4. I’ve also pushed discussions of the question of the automation of AI R&D, or When AI Builds AI, to a future post, when there is a slot for that.

So get your reactions to all of those in by then, including in the comments to today's post, and I’ll consider them for incorporation.

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Outline:

(00:55) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(02:30) Overcoming Bias

(03:01) Huh, Upgrades

(04:53) On Your Marks

(05:15) Choose Your Fighter

(09:53) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(12:57) Cybersecurity On Alert

(15:28) Fun With Media Generation

(16:22) You Drive Me Crazy

(21:51) They Took Our Jobs

(22:19) Get Involved

(22:48) Introducing

(24:11) In Other AI News

(28:21) Show Me the Money

(30:58) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

(38:45) Quiet Speculations

(42:39) Don't Be All Thumbs

(43:52) The First Step Is Admitting You Have a Problem

(49:34) Quickly, There's No Time

(53:39) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(57:55) Those Really Were Interesting Times

(01:02:18) Chip City

(01:04:35) The Week in Audio

(01:07:24) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:14:55) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:15:46) The Power Of Disempowerment

(01:19:14) The Lighter Side

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