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.

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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

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First published:

October 2nd, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZE2Hztfvk7xKrzBk/ai-136-a-song-and-dance

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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