AI #193: Progress May Dramatically Accelerate

Anthropic’s amended S-1 warns that it may imminently meet its own definition of “dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI”, and Astra turns out to be able to read and directly edit the weights of other neural networks. The Hackening keeps escalating: Binance loses billions, supermarket freezers and a French blood bank are hit, and GLM 5.3 breaks into Firefox. Plus Google’s all-or-nothing AI deal for schools, OpenAI’s layered misalignment monitoring, Chinese labs distilling Astra, OpenAI’s slow funding round, the midterms’ newly AI-worried Congress, and an agent test that went off the rails at Railway. The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:06 - Table of Contents * 03:55 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility * 04:43 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility * 06:08 - Huh, Upgrades * 06:34 - On Your Marks * 08:23 - Get My Agent On The Line * 10:23 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon * 11:24 - Copyright Confrontation * 11:53 - Cyber Lack of Security * 13:14 - The Hackening * 20:25 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer * 23:13 - They Took Our Jobs * 23:45 - Get Involved * 24:39 - Introducing * 25:43 - In Other AI News * 27:00 - Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) 1 * 30:06 - Recursive Self-Improvement 2 * 35:23 - Show Me the Money * 36:27 - Quiet Speculations * 39:47 - The Quest for Sane Regulations * 42:13 - Chip City * 45:00 - The Week in Audio * 45:49 - People Just Say Things * 47:18 - Against Against Sura * 48:05 - Rhetorical Innovation * 50:47 - [Artificial Intelligence] * 51:20 - The OpenAI Foundation * 52:19 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult * 58:09 - Massive Fraudulent Distillation * 59:43 - Cooperative Alignment * 01:01:45 - The Lighter Side https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-193-progress-may-dramatically?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe