“AI #113: The o3 Era Begins” by Zvi

Enjoy it while it lasts. The Claude 4 era, or the o4 era, or both, are coming soon. Also, welcome to 2025, we measure eras in weeks or at most months. For now, the central thing going on continues to be everyone adapting to the world of o3, a model that is excellent at providing mundane utility with the caveat that it is a lying liar. You need to stay on your toes. This was also quietly a week full of other happenings, including a lot of discussions around alignment and different perspectives on what we need to do to achieve good outcomes, many of which strike me as dangerously mistaken and often naive. I worry that growingly common themes are people pivoting to some mix of ‘alignment is solved, we know how to get an AI to do what we want it to do, the question is alignment to [...]

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Outline:

(01:33) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(05:27) You Offer the Models Mundane Utility

(07:25) Your Daily Briefing

(08:20) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(12:27) If You Want It Done Right

(14:27) No Free Lunch

(16:07) What Is Good In Life?

(21:54) In Memory Of

(25:45) The Least Sincere Form of Flattery

(27:18) The Vibes are Off

(30:47) Here Let Me AI That For You

(32:25) Flash Sale

(34:38) Huh, Upgrades

(36:03) On Your Marks

(44:03) Be The Best Like No LLM Ever Was

(48:40) Choose Your Fighter

(51:00) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(54:57) Fun With Media Generation

(56:11) Fun With Media Selection

(57:39) Copyright Confrontation

(59:38) They Took Our Jobs

(01:05:31) Get Involved

(01:05:41) Ace is the Place

(01:09:43) In Other AI News

(01:11:31) Show Me the Money

(01:12:49) The Mask Comes Off

(01:16:54) Quiet Speculations

(01:20:34) Is This AGI?

(01:22:39) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:23:03) Cooperation is Highly Useful

(01:25:47) Nvidia Chooses Bold Strategy

(01:27:15) How America Loses

(01:28:07) Security Is Capability

(01:31:38) The Week in Audio

(01:33:15) AI 2027

(01:34:38) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:38:55) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:46:30) Misalignment in the Wild

(01:51:13) Concentration of Power and Lack of Transparency

(01:57:12) Property Rights are Not a Long Term Plan

(01:58:48) It Is Risen

(01:59:46) The Lighter Side

The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.

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First published:
April 24th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7x9MZCmoFA2FtBtmG/ai-113-the-o3-era-begins

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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