“AI #190: Scion of the Times” by Zvi - LessWrong (30+ Karma) | Lyssna här

The amount of code being written at Anthropic continues to rise exponentially. It is being managed by Scion, their internal replacement for GitHub that is better suited to the scale and style of the operation, which they created with a small team in five months.

This week also saw the release of two supposed frontier model models.

Google has finally given us Gemini 4 Argon, along with a robust safety report. We do not yet know if Argon lives up to its benchmarks or internal hype. I plan to write up the safety report next week, time permitting. If and only if it is good enough or discussed enough we will also have a full report on capabilities.

Meta gave us Muse Wonder, which like Argon has some excellent benchmarks, although they were presented in a way that looked rather sus. There are some reports that it is very good, but again it is too early to know. I will issue a full report if and only if Muse Wonder has capabilities or discussion that seem worthy.

To help me decide and to let people have fun, I have markets on whether I will issue [...]

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Outline:

(02:24) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(07:10) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(09:41) Huh, Upgrades

(12:10) On Your Marks

(13:42) Choose Your Fighter

(14:08) Get My Agent On The Line

(16:13) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(22:07) Cyber Lack of Security

(27:09) Spy Versus Spy