AI Advancements and Societal Impacts

In episode 35 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn who the 175th best programmer in the world is, the AI supervillains put on suits for President Trump, a "not imaginary" AI turns out to be imaginary, OpenAI releases Operator and teases o3-mini, and Anthropic predicts that superintelligence is only three years away.

Graham considers giving his money, pets, and vital organs to a YouTuber with an AI, and Mark looks into Project Stargate and the geo-politics of AI.

Episode links:

• Trump announces the Stargate AI infrastructure project.
• Shipment of ‘Friend’ AI digital companion delayed.
• Sam Altman teases o3-mini.
• Trump accused of using AI to compose garbled executive orders.
• Introducting Operator.
• LinkedIn accused of using private messages to train AI.
• Dario Amodei talks about superintelligence.
• TimeShift.
• TimeShift cryopreservation facility promotional video.
• The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.
• Implementation of Additional Export Controls: Certain Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing Items; Supercomputer and Semiconductor End Use; Entity List Modification.
• The memory wall.



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