AI #154: Claw Your Way To The Top

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:06 - Table of Contents* 00:04:21 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:31 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:07:08 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:09:18 - They Got Served, They Served Back, Now It’s On* 00:18:13 - On Your Marks* 00:22:30 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:23:42 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:27:06 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:27:39 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:28:16 - Unprompted Attention* 00:28:28 - Get Involved* 00:32:26 - Introducing* 00:32:53 - State of AI Report 2026* 00:40:42 - In Other AI News* 00:45:13 - Autonomous Killer Robots* 00:46:43 - Show Me the Money* 00:49:14 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:52:37 - Quiet Speculations* 00:53:37 - Seb Krier Says Seb Krier Things* 01:04:13 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:04:30 - Chip City* 01:08:51 - The Week in Audio* 01:09:15 - The Adolescence of Technology* 01:10:05 - I Won’t Stand To Be Disparaged* 01:14:44 - Constitutional Conversation* 01:16:26 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:20:34 - Don’t Panic* 01:23:05 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:24:23 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:25:37 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-154-claw-your-way-to-the-top?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe