“AI #189: New Math” by Zvi

The big drop of this week was not a new AI model. It was instead the biggest day (so far!) in the history of mathematics, as OpenAI dropped solutions to 90 of the top 500 open math problems, along with many others, reached on an average budget of three hours of Pro-level compute per question. This was kind of a big deal and I plan to cover it tomorrow. We did see Claude Haiku 5.5, which looks promising given it is only 0.10 dollars/0.50 dollars. My week was largely spent at The Curve. The entire conference was Chatham House, so I can’t give as many details as I would like, but I have a write-up here. I finally had a chance to post my coverage of model welfare for both Mythos/Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5. I continue to think this is an important issue for anyone wanting to understand today's AIs, even if you are highly confident that model welfare does not matter directly, as it has many practical implications on top of that. Jay Clayton is the new AI Czar, and is at the head of a new taskforce. Given who else was in [...] --- Outline: (02:36) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility (02:46) Consumers Use AI (09:48) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility (12:02) Huh, Upgrades (14:42) On Your Marks (16:53) Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game (18:49) Choose Your Fighter (19:48) Get My Agent On The Line (25:15) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon (29:17) Fun With Media Generation (31:10) Cyber Lack of Security (34:12) Hugging the Face (35:18) Misaligned! (37:16) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (38:28) They Took Our Jobs (40:45) Corporations Are Not Superintelligences (42:56) Get Involved (43:11) Introducing (45:26) In Other AI News (45:59) Show Me the Money (48:18) Quiet Speculations (50:26) Quickly, There's No Time (52:26) He's Putting Together a Team (55:14) The Quest for Sane Regulations (57:37) Well, At Least They're Forecasters (58:41) Chip City (59:16) The Week in Audio (01:03:48) Stop, Stop, He's Already Dead (01:08:32) People Just Say Things (01:10:46) Take a Moment (01:12:24) [Artificial Intelligence] (01:13:07) The American People Really Hate AI (01:16:29) Rhetorical Innovation (01:19:55) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult (01:20:11) Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This (01:23:22) Cooperative Alignment (01:33:45) Building the Field (01:36:05) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone (01:40:03) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone (01:40:38) Please Speak Directly Into This Microphone (01:42:54) The Lighter Side --- First published: October 8th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DZPodskqJJNEkMLvH/ai-189-new-math --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.