AI #166: Google Sells Out

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* 00:02:02 - Table of Contents* 00:05:35 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:04 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:12:01 - Seeking Deeply* 00:24:00 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:24:32 - On Your Marks* 00:24:49 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:25:50 - More On Claude Opus four point seven* 00:27:30 - Goblin Mode (More on GPT-5.5)* 00:35:28 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:36:12 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:38:49 - Get Involved* 00:39:47 - Introducing* 00:40:37 - In Other AI News* 00:41:26 - Show Me the Money* 00:41:55 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:42:52 - The Art of the Deal* 00:43:56 - Quiet Speculations* 00:45:22 - And He’s Gone* 00:46:37 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:47:07 - Distillation* 00:49:38 - If You Want A Good Future You Must Steer It* 00:56:42 - Chip City* 00:57:41 - The Mask Comes Off* 01:13:47 - People Just Say Principles* 01:17:57 - Greetings From The Department of War* 01:24:48 - Greetings From Project Glasswing* 01:30:30 - The Week in Audio* 01:32:12 - People Just Say Things* 01:36:08 - People Just Publish Things* 01:36:30 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:41:12 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:45:48 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:52:37 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:53:46 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-166-google-sells-out?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe