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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. The copyright decisions being [...] ---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 --- First published: October 2nd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZE2Hztfvk7xKrzBk/ai-136-a-song-and-dance --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.