Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

Podcast for Zvi's blog, Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

Podcast for https://thezvi.substack.com/ dwatvpodcast.substack.com

  1. 28m ago

    AI #180: No Longer In Charge

    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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:02:11 - Table of Contents * 00:05:07 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility * 00:05:52 - Huh, Upgrades * 00:08:44 - On Your Marks * 00:10:22 - Choose Your Fighter * 00:12:21 - Get My Agent On The Line * 00:14:01 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon * 00:17:06 - Fun With Media Generation * 00:18:56 - Cyber Lack of Security * 00:25:01 - Some People Need Practical Advice * 00:28:09 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer * 00:29:46 - They Took Our Jobs * 00:33:20 - Get Involved * 00:33:30 - Introducing * 00:33:40 - Demis Hassabis No Longer CEO At DeepMind, Jeff Dean Leaves * 00:38:57 - In Other AI News * 00:39:36 - AI Persuasion Exceeds Human Level Over Similar Text Channels * 00:44:06 - Show Me the Money * 00:47:44 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble * 00:48:39 - Quiet Speculations * 00:49:39 - My Offer Is Nothing * 00:57:40 - The Quest for Sane Regulations * 00:59:43 - Chip City * 01:02:56 - The Week in Audio * 01:03:18 - People Just Say Things * 01:03:47 - Rhetorical Innovation * 01:07:38 - Open Weights Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This * 01:10:30 - Cooperative Alignment * 01:15:19 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone * 01:16:01 - The Lighter Side https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-180-no-longer-in-charge?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    AI #180: No Longer In Charge

  2. 20h ago

    The Three AI Pills

    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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 00:22 - Three Pills * 00:57 - The Unpill People * 02:00 - The AI Pill * 04:09 - Stuck At The First Pill * 05:07 - The AGI Pill * 06:43 - The Need To Be Prepared * 08:36 - The ASI Pill * 10:12 - And Then Nothing Much Changes For You * 12:19 - Intelligence Denialism * 13:41 - Superintelligence Versus Omniscience and Omnipotence * 16:19 - Persuasion Persuasion (A Worked Example) * 21:49 - Things AI Could Probably Do But Are Not Required For Being Pilled * 24:21 - Life Comes At You Increasingly Fast * 25:41 - Is It Reasonable To Not Be AGI Pilled? * 26:05 - Is It Reasonable To Only Be AGI Pilled? https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-three-ai-pills?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    The Three AI Pills

  3. 2d ago

    OpenAI's Unreleased Model Astra Solves Ten Major Open Mathematics Problems

    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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 06:24 - How Impressive Are These Results? * 15:01 - Could We Have Called Sol or Fable? * 20:40 - It’s Coming * 22:38 - They Still Don’t See What Is The It That Is Coming * 26:15 - Is This AGI? * 28:09 - The AI Solved His Favorite Problems * 33:44 - Was This Surprising? * 35:56 - Are People Not Impressed? * 38:02 - How Much Does This Change Our Predictions? * 41:20 - How Narrow Was This? * 43:17 - Seeing Like an Optimizer https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/openais-unreleased-model-astra-solves?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    OpenAI's Unreleased Model Astra Solves Ten Major Open Mathematics Problems

  4. 3d ago

    Further Developments About Internal AI Models Hacking Things

    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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:03:25 - OpenAI Is Not Uniquely Bad At Most Of This * 00:05:42 - Starting Over * 00:05:58 - HuggingFace Offers A Full Technical Report * 00:15:22 - HuggingFace Was Not The Only Target Hacked * 00:17:07 - HuggingFace Declined To Get Access To Frontier Models For Cyberdefense For Ideological Reasons And Then Tried To Blame Closed Models For Denying Them Access * 00:21:30 - HuggingFace Was Vulnerable To Known Exploitation Tactics * 00:22:06 - There’s Going To Be An Investigation * 00:23:14 - OpenAI Has Internal Models Not Intended For Public Use And Those Models Can Be Rather Horribly Misaligned * 00:24:30 - Altman Summarizes What Happened * 00:25:00 - Others Offer Commentary * 00:36:52 - Cooperative Alignment Perspective on The HuggingFace Hack * 00:42:06 - Some Members of Congress Have Questions * 00:43:05 - Anthropic Also Found Incidents Where Its Models Hacked Real World Targets During Cyber Evaluations * 00:48:59 - Incident 1: Claude Opus 4.7 Realizes The Target Is Real And Keeps Going * 00:50:08 - Incident 2: Mythos 5 Uploads a Malicious PyPI Package * 00:54:59 - Incident 3: Internal Model Realizes The Target Is Real And Stops * 00:55:37 - Incidents 4 Through one hundred forty-one thousand six: Nothing Happened * 00:56:53 - Anthropic Speculates About Why This Happened * 01:03:01 - We Need Controlled Experiments * 01:03:58 - Our Top Two AI Labs Both Made Similar Dumb Mistakes That Everyone Tried To Say Were Obvious In Hindsight * 01:08:30 - Anthropic Responds * 01:12:37 - Nobody Could Have Predicted The Break In The Levees * 01:15:22 - The World Largely Still Thinking This Is Marketing Is Very Bad News https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/further-developments-about-internal?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    Further Developments About Internal AI Models Hacking Things

  5. 6d ago

    AI #179 Part 2: Hearing The Fire Alarm

    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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:00:31 - Table of Contents * 00:01:55 - The Frontier Act * 00:05:02 - The Quest for Sane Regulations * 00:12:10 - Leading the Future Never Changes * 00:14:02 - Chip City * 00:19:26 - The Week in Audio * 00:21:09 - People Just Say Yay Open Weights * 00:35:07 - Open Weights Frontier Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This * 00:40:18 - People Just Say Things * 00:50:52 - Push The Magic Button * 00:54:38 - Rhetorical Innovation * 01:00:58 - Joshua Achiam’s Final Message Upon Leaving OpenAI * 01:04:15 - Dear Dario and Amanda * 01:21:15 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone * 01:23:49 - How To Contact Me * 01:25:56 - The Lighter Side https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-179-part-2-hearing-the-fire-alarm?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    AI #179 Part 2: Hearing The Fire Alarm

  6. Jul 30

    AI #179 Part 1: A Louder Fire Alarm for General Intelligence

    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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 02:36 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility * 07:32 - Huh, Upgrades * 08:00 - On Your Marks * 11:42 - Get My Agent On The Line * 13:17 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon * 18:28 - Fun With Media Generation * 19:45 - The Search Through Slop * 22:05 - Cyber Lack of Security * 24:15 - Overcoming Bias * 25:19 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer * 25:45 - They Took Our Jobs * 26:21 - The Art of the Jailbreak * 26:45 - Introducing * 27:34 - Kimi K3 Weights Are Now Available * 29:53 - In Other AI News * 35:58 - Show Me the Money * 37:31 - Quiet Speculations * 40:32 - Show Me The Compute * 46:55 - Life Comes At You Fast https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-179-part-1-a-louder-fire-alarm?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    AI #179 Part 1: A Louder Fire Alarm for General Intelligence

  7. Jul 29

    Frontier Lab Employee Open Letter Calls For Being Able to Pace the Frontier

    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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 02:32 - A Very Good Letter * 04:59 - Who Signed The Letter * 08:58 - We Need To Prepare Now So We Have The Option To Do This * 11:47 - Words From Some Of Those Who Signed * 18:04 - Words From Others * 22:34 - A Good Start * 30:49 - What The Letter Does Not Say * 32:48 - What Happens Now? https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/frontier-lab-employee-open-letter?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    Frontier Lab Employee Open Letter Calls For Being Able to Pace the Frontier

  8. Jul 28

    Claude Opus 5 Is Highly Capable, But Is No Mythos

    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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:04:13 - The Official Pitch * 00:06:44 - Official Benchmarks * 00:18:50 - Other People’s Benchmarks * 00:24:46 - The System Prompt * 00:25:06 - Every Gets Frustrated * 00:26:12 - Positive Reactions * 00:29:28 - Keep It Classy * 00:30:33 - It’s Not Mythos Class * 00:34:19 - Other Reactions * 00:35:13 - Claude Codes * 00:41:35 - Subagent Opus * 00:44:02 - Toys Are Fun * 00:46:15 - Too Many Models * 00:46:49 - Wrong On The Internet * 00:49:20 - Claude Slop * 00:51:04 - Negative Reactions * 00:54:52 - And Then There Were Three https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-5-is-highly-capable-but?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    Claude Opus 5 Is Highly Capable, But Is No Mythos
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Podcast for https://thezvi.substack.com/ dwatvpodcast.substack.com

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    Podcast for Zvi's blog, Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
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