Tomorrow I will fly out to San Francisco, to spend Friday through Monday at the LessOnline conference at Lighthaven in Berkeley. If you are there, by all means say hello. If you are in the Bay generally and want to otherwise meet, especially on Monday, let me know that too and I will see if I have time to make that happen.

Even without that hiccup, it continues to be a game of playing catch-up. Progress is being made, but we are definitely not there yet (and everything not AI is being completely ignored for now).

Last week I pointed out seven things I was unable to cover, along with a few miscellaneous papers and reports.

Out of those seven, I managed to ship on three of them: Ongoing issues at OpenAI, The Schumer Report and Anthropic's interpretability paper.

However, OpenAI developments continue. Thanks largely [...]

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Outline:

(01:42) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(03:59) Not Okay, Google

(13:33) OK Google, Don’t Panic

(17:10) Not Okay, Meta

(23:11) Not Okay Taking Our Jobs

(28:36) They Took Our Jobs Anyway

(32:39) A New Leaderboard Appears

(35:24) Copyright Confrontation

(35:42) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(40:12) Get Involved

(40:29) Introducing

(44:33) In Other AI News

(47:48) GPT-5 Alive

(50:11) Quiet Speculations

(01:02:26) Open Versus Closed

(01:07:16) Your Kind of People

(01:09:42) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:16:01) Lawfare and Liability

(01:22:47) SB 1047 Unconstitutional, Claims Paper

(01:26:48) The Week in Audio

(01:28:58) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:32:34) Abridged Reports of Our Death

(01:33:38) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:38:46) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:39:43) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:40:51) The Lighter Side

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