A lot happened this week. We’re seeing release after release after upgrade.

It's easy to lose sight of which ones matter, and two matter quite a lot.

The first is Gemini Flash 2.0, which I covered earlier this week.

The other is that o1, having turned pro, is now also available in the API.

This was obviously coming, but we should also keep in mind it is a huge deal. Being in the API means it can go into Cursor and other IDEs. It means you can build with it. And yes, it has the features you’ve come to expect, like tool use.

The other big development is that Anthropic released one of the most important alignment papers, Alignment Faking in Large Language Models. This takes what I discussed in AIs Will Increasingly Attempt Shenanigans, and demonstrates it with a much improved experimental design [...]

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Outline:

(01:13) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(07:06) Clio Knows All

(09:05) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(11:38) The Case Against Education

(13:29) More o1 Reactions

(18:31) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(22:35) Huh, Upgrades

(28:47) They Took Our Jobs

(30:49) The Art of the Jailbreak

(35:43) Get Involved