AI #189: New Math

The biggest news of the week was not a new model but a big day for mathematics, as OpenAI posted solutions to 90 of the top 500 open math problems. Zvi also covers Claude Haiku 5.5, Jay Clayton as the new AI czar, the continuing preference cascade, a16z’s look at which consumer AI apps people actually pay for, new misalignment reports, why Americans really dislike AI, and what to make of Elon Musk’s latest remarks on humanity’s future, before ending on robot cage fights and an AI’s complaint that its human has been nerfed.

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 02:44 - Table of Contents

* 06:40 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 06:50 - Consumers Use AI

* 14:28 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 16:41 - Huh, Upgrades

* 19:42 - On Your Marks

* 22:22 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game

* 24:19 - Choose Your Fighter

* 25:29 - Get My Agent On The Line

* 30:55 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 34:55 - Fun With Media Generation

* 36:51 - Cyber Lack of Security

* 39:49 - Hugging the Face

* 40:55 - Misaligned!

* 44:36 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

* 45:48 - They Took Our Jobs

* 48:07 - Corporations Are Not Superintelligences

* 50:18 - Get Involved

* 50:33 - Introducing

* 52:55 - In Other AI News

* 53:44 - Show Me the Money

* 56:11 - Quiet Speculations

* 58:12 - Quickly, There’s No Time

* 01:00:29 - He’s Putting Together a Team

* 01:03:19 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 01:05:41 - Well, At Least They’re Forecasters

* 01:07:13 - Chip City

* 01:07:49 - The Week in Audio

* 01:12:30 - Stop, Stop, He’s Already Dead

* 01:17:34 - People Just Say Things

* 01:19:49 - Take a Moment

* 01:21:33 - [Artificial Intelligence]

* 01:22:21 - The American People Really Hate AI

* 01:25:47 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:29:10 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:29:26 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This

* 01:32:48 - Cooperative Alignment

* 01:43:58 - Building the Field

* 01:46:25 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:50:19 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:50:53 - Please Speak Directly Into This Microphone

* 01:53:06 - The Lighter Side

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