AI #169: New Knowledge

Even in a relatively quiet period, AI is out there creating new knowledge. The new knowledge in question is Open AI getting us the first truly impressive math result that comes from an AI, a solution to the unit distance problem. We’re about to learn a different kind of knowledge later today when the White House issues its executive order, or when the judges rule in Anthropic’s DC case. And then there’s the other kind of new knowledge, which is the knowledge that things are fake slop, such as a particular formerly supposedly prestigious literary prize. Meanwhile, METR issued a risk report on frontier models, concluding that they don’t yet have the means, motive and opportunity to cause the big issues, but that this would not obviously last so much longer. Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic, explicitly to do recursive self-improvement. He plans to later return to his education work, but if he succeeds at his new task there might not be anything left to return to. Congratulations to both sides, but also yikes. Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI has been dismissed, because he waited too long. Table of Contents Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. AI passes the test. Do The Math. AI creates new mathematical knowledge. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. AI takes a music break. Huh, Upgrades. Codex via your phone. The Prior Restraint Era Begins. The executive order is expected today. On Your Marks. Stuff on the radio. METR Frontier Risk Report. Could frontier labs soon lose control? Choose Your Fighter. To improve, ask where you fail. Overcoming Bias. Censorship regimes by default get favorable LLM treatment. Get My Agent On The Line. Use your agent as a filter or commitment device. Your Prize Is Slop. RIP the Commonwealth Prize in Literature. I hope. Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. Your name on the ArXiv paper? Your fault. Cyber Lack of Security. Are more things breaking, or are we better at noticing? Copyright Confrontation. OpenAI adopts SynthID. A Young