Monthly Archives: August 2025

AI #131 Part 2: Various Misaligned Things

Posted on August 29, 2025 by TheZvi

It doesn’t look good, on many fronts, especially taking a stake in Intel. We continue. Table of Contents America Extorts 10% of Intel. Nice company you got there. Who’s next? The Quest For No Regulations Whatsoever. a16z is at it … Continue reading →

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AI #131 Part 1: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is Cool

Posted on August 28, 2025 by TheZvi

Once again we’ve reached the point where the weekly update needs to be split in two. Thus, the alignment and policy coverage will happen tomorrow. Today covers the rest. The secret big announcement this week was Claude for Chrome. This … Continue reading →

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Are They Starting To Take Our Jobs?

Posted on August 27, 2025 by TheZvi

Is generative AI making it harder for young people to find jobs? My answer is: Yes, definitely, in terms of for any given job that exists finding the job and getting hired. That’s getting harder. AI is most definitely screwing … Continue reading →

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Reports Of AI Not Progressing Or Offering Mundane Utility Are Often Greatly Exaggerated

Posted on August 26, 2025 by TheZvi

In the wake of the confusions around GPT-5, this week had yet another round of claims that AI wasn’t progressing, or AI isn’t or won’t create much value, and so on. There were reports that one study in particular impacted … Continue reading →

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Arguments About AI Consciousness Seem Highly Motivated And At Best Overconfident

Posted on August 25, 2025 by TheZvi

I happily admit I am deeply confused about consciousness. I don’t feel confident I understand what it is, what causes it, which entities have it, what future entities might have it, to what extent it matters and why, or what … Continue reading →

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DeepSeek v3.1 Is Not Having a Moment

Posted on August 22, 2025 by TheZvi

What if DeepSeek released a model claiming 66 on SWE and almost no one tried using it? Would it be any good? Would you be able to tell? Or would we get the shortest post of the year? Why We … Continue reading →

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AI #130: Talking Past The Sale

Posted on August 21, 2025 by TheZvi

One potentially big event was that DeepSeek came out with v3.1. Initial response was very quiet, but this is DeepSeek and there are some strong scores especially on SWE and people may need time to process the release. So I’m … Continue reading →

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AI Companion Conditions

Posted on August 20, 2025 by TheZvi

The conditions are: Lol, we’re Meta. Or lol we’re xAI. This expands upon many previous discussions, including the AI Companion Piece. Lol We’re Meta I said that ‘Lol we’re Meta’ was their alignment plan. It turns out their alignment plan … Continue reading →

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Monthly Roundup #33: August 2025

Posted on August 19, 2025 by TheZvi

I got suckered into paying attention to multiple non-AI political stories this month: The shooting of the messenger, in violation of the most sacred principles, via firing the head of the USA’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Online Safety … Continue reading →

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GPT-5: The Reverse DeepSeek Moment

Posted on August 18, 2025 by TheZvi

Everyone agrees that the release of GPT-5 was botched. Everyone can also agree that the direct jump from GPT-4o and o3 to GPT-5 was not of similar size to the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4, that it was not the … Continue reading →

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