There is no shortage of people willing to talk about every week as a huge week in AI with tons of amazing new releases and announcements. At first this was usually right, then it mostly stopped being right. This week we had Code Interpreter and Claude 2.0 and x.AI (whatever that actually is) and a bunch of other stuff, while I was still processing OpenAI’s huge announcement of their Superalignment Taskforce. As usual, when there’s lots of great stuff that makes it that much harder to actually find time to play around with it. Things are good and also can be overwhelming.

I will be in Seattle this weekend, arriving Sunday and leaving Tuesday. If you’d like to say hello while I am there, let me know. I know better than to request things get quiet.

Also on a non-AI note, congratulations to Nate Silver on a great run at the World Series of Poker main event, whole tournament has been a blast to watch especially when Rigby is at the table, he’s crazy good.

And on another non-AI note, I’d like to highlight the Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive. We need more voices for progress generally, including to ensure [...]

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