Podcast episode for DeepSeek v3.2 Is Okay And Cheap But Slow. * 00:00 - Introduction* 00:44 - A Brief History of DeepSeek* 03:52 - Once More, With Feeling* 07:31 - Reading The Paper* 09:27 - Open Language Model Offers Mundane Utility* 12:25 - Those Benchmarks* 17:21 - Open Language Model Doesn’t Offer Mundane Utility* 18:45 - Open Language Model Does Do The Math* 19:59 - I’ll Get You Next Time, GadgetThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/deepseek-v32-is-okay-and-cheap-but?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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AI #145: You've Got Soul
Podcast episode for AI #145: You’ve Got Soul. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:49 - Table of Contents* 00:06:17 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:07:17 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:31 - On Your Marks* 00:10:15 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:10:49 - Advertising Is Coming* 00:12:11 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:18:29 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:19:52 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:21:04 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:21:22 - Unprompted Attention* 00:21:35 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:27:18 - Get Involved* 00:28:30 - Introducing* 00:28:54 - Variously Effective Altruism* 00:32:48 - In Other AI News* 00:35:35 - Show Me the Money* 00:35:41 - Quiet Speculations* 00:36:55 - Seb Krier On Agents Versus Multiagents* 00:44:05 - Olivia Moore Makes 2026 Predictions* 00:47:04 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:48:15 - Americans Really Do Not Like AI* 00:53:47 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:55:55 - My Offer Is Nothing* 01:01:27 - America Pauses* 01:03:08 - David Sacks Covered In New York Times* 01:06:37 - The Week in Audio* 01:07:06 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:07:56 - To The Moon* 01:14:55 - Showing Up* 01:19:29 - DeepMind Pivots Its Interpretability Research* 01:22:33 - The Explicit Goal Of OpenAI Is Recursive Self-Improvement* 01:27:55 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:35:07 - Misaligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence Is Difficult To Hire For* 01:36:02 - You’ve Got Soul* 01:47:16 - Disagreements About Timelines* 01:51:48 - Other Disagreements About Timelines* 01:57:18 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:57:32 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:57:51 - The Lighter SideThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-145-youve-got-soul?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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On Dwarkesh Patel's Second Interview With Ilya Sutskever
Podcast episode for On Dwarkesh Patel’s Second Interview With Ilya Sutskever.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:47 - Table of Contents* 02:19 - Explaining Model Jaggedness* 03:58 - Emotions and value functions* 05:36 - What are we scaling?* 06:47 - Why humans generalize better than models* 08:10 - Straight-shooting superintelligence* 09:57 - SSI’s model will learn from deployment* 10:59 - Alignment* 20:03 - “We are squarely an age of research company”* 25:15 - Research taste* 27:57 - Bonus Coverage: Dwarkesh Patel on AI Progress These DaysThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-second-interview?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Reward Mismatches in RL Cause Emergent Misalignment
Podcast episode for Reward Mismatches in RL Cause Emergent Misalignment. * 00:00 - Introduction* 02:53 - Abstract Of The Paper* 04:15 - The Problem Statement* 06:16 - The Inoculation Solution* 08:48 - Cleaning The Data Versus Cleaning The Environments* 10:31 - No All Of This Does Not Solve Our Most Important Problems* 15:46 - It Does Help On Important Short Term ProblemsThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/reward-mismatches-in-rl-cause-emergent?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available
Podcast episode for Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available. 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-45-is-the-best-model?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe