“AI #137: An OpenAI App For That” by Zvi

OpenAI is making deals and shipping products. They locked in their $500 billion valuation and then got 10% of AMD in exchange for buying a ton of chips. They gave us the ability to ‘chat with apps’ inside of ChatGPT. They walked back their insane Sora copyright and account deletion policies and are buying $50 million in marketing. They’ve really got a lot going on right now.

Of course, everyone else also has a lot going on right now. It's AI. I spent the last weekend at a great AI conference at Lighthaven called The Curve.

The other big news that came out this morning is that China is asserting sweeping extraterritorial control over rare earth metals. This is likely China's biggest card short of full trade war or worse, and it is being played in a hugely escalatory way that America obviously can’t accept. Presumably this [...]

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Outline:

(01:33) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(03:39) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(05:13) Huh, Upgrades

(08:21) Chat With Apps

(11:32) On Your Marks

(12:51) Choose Your Fighter

(13:47) Fun With Media Generation

(24:03) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(27:46) You Drive Me Crazy

(31:33) They Took Our Jobs

(34:35) The Art of the Jailbreak

(34:55) Get Involved

(38:31) Introducing

(42:18) In Other AI News

(43:38) Get To Work

(45:45) Show Me the Money

(50:24) Quiet Speculations

(52:15) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:02:31) Chip City

(01:06:53) The Race to Maximize Rope Market Share

(01:08:49) The Week in Audio

(01:09:28) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:10:13) Paranoia Paranoia Everybody's Coming To Test Me

(01:13:10) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:14:12) Free Petri Dish

(01:15:45) Unhobbling The Unhobbling Department

(01:17:46) Serious People Are Worried About Synthetic Bio Risks

(01:19:09) Messages From Janusworld

(01:28:54) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:32:14) Other People Are Excited About AI Killing Everyone

(01:40:48) So You've Decided To Become Evil

(01:45:25) The Lighter Side

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First published:
October 9th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YfvqLidW5BGpiFrNF/ai-137-an-openai-app-for-that

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