“AI #111: Giving Us Pause” by Zvi

Events in AI don’t stop merely because of a trade war, partially paused or otherwise.

Indeed, the decision to not restrict export of H20 chips to China could end up being one of the most important government actions that happened this week. A lot of people are quite boggled about how America could so totally fumble the ball on this particular front, especially given what else is going on. Thus, I am going to put these issues up top again this week, with the hopes that we don’t have to do that again.

This week's previous posts covered AI 2027, both the excellent podcast about it and other people's response, and the release of Llama-4 Scout and Llama-4 Maverick. Both Llama-4 models were deeply disappointing even with my low expectations.

Upgrades continue, as Gemini 2.5 now powers Deep Research, and both it and Grok 3 are [...]

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Outline:

(01:20) The Tariffs And Selling China AI Chips Are How America Loses

(08:37) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(13:13) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(16:16) Huh, Upgrades

(20:50) Choose Your Fighter

(23:33) On Your Marks

(28:37) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(29:25) Fun With Image Generation

(33:37) Copyright Confrontation

(34:24) They Took Our Jobs

(39:24) Get Involved

(40:50) Introducing

(42:49) In Other AI News

(47:13) Show Me the Money

(50:41) Quiet Speculations

(53:35) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(57:35) The Week in Audio

(58:22) AI 2027

(01:02:31) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:05:23) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

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First published:
April 10th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RT2zbHdjYwuKXdHjB/ai-111-giving-us-pause

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