“AI #100: Meet the New Boss” by Zvi

Break time is over, it would seem, now that the new administration is in town.

This week we got r1, DeepSeek's new reasoning model, which is now my go-to first choice for a large percentage of queries. The claim that this was the most important thing to happen on January 20, 2025 was at least non-crazy. If you read about one thing this week read about that.

We also got the announcement of Stargate, a claimed $500 billion private investment in American AI infrastructure. I will be covering that on its own soon.

Due to time limits I have also pushed coverage of a few things into next week, including this alignment paper, and I still owe my take on Deliberative Alignment.

The Trump administration came out swinging on many fronts with a wide variety of executive orders. For AI, that includes repeal of the [...]

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Outline:

(01:24) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(10:54) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(17:20) Huh, Upgrades

(20:03) Additional Notes on r1

(22:41) Fun With Media Generation

(23:18) We Tested Older LLMs and Are Framing It As a Failure

(26:56) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(32:10) They Took Our Jobs

(47:15) Get Involved

(47:54) Introducing

(51:38) We Had a Deal

(01:07:17) In Other AI News

(01:18:39) Whistling in the Dark

(01:22:03) Quiet Speculations

(01:28:09) Suchir's Last Post

(01:29:43) Modeling Lower Bound Economic Growth From AI

(01:34:42) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:39:53) The Week in Audio

(01:42:51) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:49:37) Cry Havoc

(01:53:14) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:59:34) People Strongly Dislike AI

(02:02:23) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(02:05:17) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(02:09:29) The Lighter Side

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First published:
January 23rd, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PjDjeGPYPoi9qfPr2/ai-100-meet-the-new-boss

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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