TypeSafe's Blazing Fast Universal Classifier
Show notes
A new AI lab says it's "not building God, we're building prod." Meanwhile, the Pentagon reportedly almost boarded a Chinese ship based on intelligence that an AI made up.
This week Pierce and Rich dig into Jev, the new model from TypeSafe AI. It doesn't write text at all. You give it a question and a fixed set of answers, and it tells you how confident it is in each one, fast and cheap. We cover why its "can't hallucinate" claim is mostly marketing, what its confidence scores are good for, our best guesses at how it works under the hood, and why it might be the last classifier anyone has to train. Plus: it plays Doom.
Then we get into CNN's report that AI-generated military intelligence got a boarding operation scoped against a regular commercial ship before anyone checked the sources. (The report hasn't been confirmed by the US government.) How did it get that far, and why do AI-written briefs deserve extra scrutiny?
Also: Rich bets a whole dollar that OpenAI buys TypeSafe within a year.