You know how you can sometimes have Taco Tuesday… on a Thursday? Yep, it’s that in reverse. I will be travelling the rest of the week, so it made sense to put this out early, and incorporate the rest of the week into #94.

Table of Contents

Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. The price is fixed, so share and enjoy.
Dare Not Speak Its Name. David Mayer. David Mayer! Guido Scorza?
Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. It’s a flop.
Huh, Upgrades. Cohere, and reports on Claude writing styles.
Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. Why do we not care about spoof calls?
Fun With Image Generation. Scott Sumner explains why he cares about art.
The Art of the Jailbreak. You had one job.
Get Involved. Anthropic AI safety fellows program, apply now.
Introducing. a voice customization tool and a new eval based on various games.
In Other AI News. Where do you draw the line? Who leaves versus who joins?
Quiet Speculations. Rumors of being so back unsubstantiated at this time.
Daron Acemoglu is Worried About Job Market Liquidity. I kid, but so does he?
Pick Up the Phone. Report from China, not the same info I usually see.
The Quest for Sane Regulations. Google antitrust foolishness, Cruz sends letters.
The Week in Audio. Got a chance to listen to Dominic Cummings, was worth it.
AGI Looking Like. You are made of atoms it could use for something else.
Rhetorical Innovation. My (and your) periodic reminder on Wrong on the Internet.
Open Weight Models are Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This. Deal as best you can.
Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult. Even words are tricky.
We Would Be So Stupid As To. Once you say it out loud, you know the answer.
The Lighter Side. It’s time to build.

Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

Use voice mode as a real time translation app to navigate a hospital in Spain.

Get Claude to actually push back on you and explain that the fight you’re involved in isn’t worth it.

Get them talking, also you don’t have to read the books either.

Freyja: I wanted to figure out what to do about my baby’s sleep situation, so I read two books with entirely opposing theories on how infant sleep works, and then asked Claude to write a dialogue between them about my specific situation
It’s such a glorious time to be alive.

Make a market cap chart via a Replit Agent in 2 minutes rather than keep looking for someone else’s chart (CEO...

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