They said it couldn’t be done.

No, not Claude Sonnet 3.5 becoming the clear best model.

No, not the Claude-Sonnet-empowered automatic meme generators. Those were whipped together in five minutes.

They said I would never get quiet time and catch up. Well, I showed them!

That's right. Yes, there is a new best model, but otherwise it was a quiet week. I got a chance to incorporate the remaining biggest backlog topics. The RAND report is covered under Thirty Eight Ways to Steal Your Model Weights. Last month's conference in Seoul is covered in You’ve Got Seoul. I got to publish my thoughts on OpenAI's Model Spec last Friday.

Table of Contents

Be sure to read about Claude 3.5 Sonnet here. That is by far the biggest story.

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Outline:

(00:50) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(02:38) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(04:41) Clauding Along

(09:46) Fun with Image Generation

(12:21) Copyright Confrontation

(16:30) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(19:45) They Took Our Jobs

(24:49) The Art of the Jailbreak

(25:40) Get Involved

(26:56) Introducing

(30:45) In Other AI News

(33:50) Quiet Speculations

(43:08) You’ve Got Seoul

(57:36) Thirty Eight Ways to Steal Your Model Weights

(01:07:48) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:13:11) SB 1047

(01:14:49) The Week in Audio

(01:20:25) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:22:26) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:24:05) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:24:50) The Lighter Side

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