AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon
Show notes
Google says it is back with Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model nobody can use yet, while OpenAI pulls one model, ships a cheaper one, and launches dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers. Zvi Mowshowitz covers the week in AI: Opus 5.5 as the new daily driver, a White House safety accord, Jensen Huang on Ezra Klein, an Anthropic IPO prospectus leak, TPUs headed for space, open-model distillation, the persona-selection debate in alignment, and a closing round of jokes about sigmoids and black holes.
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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 03:17 - Table of Contents
* 06:28 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
* 09:44 - Huh, Upgrades
* 11:35 - Better Call Sol
* 15:57 - Gotta Go Ultrafast
* 17:31 - On Your Marks
* 21:15 - Choose Your Fighter
* 23:55 - Get My Agent On The Line
* 27:24 - The Warner Sister
* 31:11 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
* 35:45 - Fun With Media Generation
* 36:37 - Cyber Lack of Security
* 38:12 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
* 38:50 - They Took Our Jobs
* 46:22 - Levels of Friction
* 49:23 - Get Involved
* 51:30 - Introducing
* 53:39 - In Other AI News
* 54:45 - Show Me the Money
* 56:46 - Quickly, There’s No Time
* 58:50 - Pick Up the Phone
* 59:50 - Quest for Sane Regulations
* 01:00:11 - Chip City
* 01:00:20 - The Open Model Frontier Is Largely Massive Fraudulent Distillation Attacks
* 01:02:40 - The Week in Audio
* 01:03:56 - People Just Say Things
* 01:05:41 - Rhetorical Innovation
* 01:10:26 - Greetings From the Department of War
* 01:13:26 - The Department of Autonomous Warfare
* 01:14:57 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
* 01:17:48 - Cooperative Alignment
* 01:23:39 - I’m Upping My p(doom), the Future Goes Foom
* 01:32:08 - No, You Make a Good Point, You’re Not That Persuasive
* 01:33:19 - Muddling Through
* 01:35:30 - The Lighter Side
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