“AI #112: Release the Everything” by Zvi

OpenAI has upgraded its entire suite of models. By all reports, they are back in the game for more than images. GPT-4.1 and especially GPT-4.1-mini are their new API non-reasoning models. All reports are that GPT-4.1-mini especially is very good. o3 is the new top of the line ChatGPT reasoning model, with o3-pro coming in a few weeks. Reports are that it too looks very good, even without us yet taking much advantage of its tool usage. If you have access, check it out. Full coverage is coming soon. There's also o4-mini and o4-mini-high. Oh, they also made ChatGPT memory cover all your conversations, if you opt in, and gave us a version of Claude Code called Codex. And an update to their preparedness framework that I haven’t had time to examine yet. Anthropic gave us (read-only for now) Google integration (as in GMail and Calendar to complement Drive), and [...]

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Outline:

(01:32) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(03:08) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(06:07) Huh, Upgrades

(09:57) On Your Marks

(12:42) Research Quickly, There's No Time

(15:16) Choose Your Fighter

(16:07) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(16:30) The Art of the Jailbreak

(16:44) Get Involved

(18:46) Introducing

(21:21) In Other AI News

(23:16) Come on OpenAI, Again?

(25:58) Show Me the Money

(26:41) In Memory Of

(28:28) Quiet Speculations

(32:17) America Restricts H20 Sales

(39:04) House Select Committee Report on DeepSeek

(48:46) Tariff Policy Continues To Be How America Loses

(58:53) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:01:03) The Week in Audio

(01:06:13) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:10:39) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:14:40) AI 2027

(01:15:13) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:19:54) The Lighter Side

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First published:
April 17th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nycc4QxQAMkzmXmfz/ai-112-release-the-everything

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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