The big headline this week was the song, which was the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5. I covered this in two parts, first the System Card and Alignment, and then a second post on capabilities. It is a very good model, likely the current best model for most coding tasks, most agentic and computer use tasks, and quick or back-and-forth chat conversations. GPT-5 still has a role to play as well.
There was also the dance, also known as Sora, both the new and improved 10-second AI video generator Sora and also the new OpenAI social network Sora. I will be covering that tomorrow. The video generator itself seems amazingly great. The social network sounds like a dystopian nightmare and I like to think Nobody Wants This, although I do not yet have access nor am I a typical customer of such products.
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Outline:
(02:52) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(04:24) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility
(06:53) Huh, Upgrades
(09:46) On Your Marks
(18:02) Choose Your Fighter
(22:36) Copyright Confrontation
(25:35) Fun With Media Generation
(27:02) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(34:06) You Drive Me Crazy
(35:12) Parental Controls
(35:59) They Took Our Jobs
(42:23) The Art of the Jailbreak
(43:25) Introducing
(49:16) In Other AI News
(50:49) Show Me the Money
(55:19) Quiet Speculations
(01:03:15) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(01:05:11) Chip City
(01:07:15) The Week in Audio
(01:07:55) If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
(01:12:55) Rhetorical Innovation
(01:16:36) Messages From Janusworld
(01:22:54) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(01:23:40) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone
(01:26:18) The Lighter Side
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First published:
October 2nd, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZE2Hztfvk7xKrzBk/ai-136-a-song-and-dance
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