AI #148: Christmas Break

Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast · Dec 25, 2025 · 1h 25m

Podcast episode for AI #148: Christmas Break.

* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:00:46 - Table of Contents

* 00:03:36 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:05:01 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:05:36 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:06:05 - On Your Marks

* 00:08:20 - Claude Opus 4.5 Joins The METR Graph

* 00:17:21 - Sufficiently Advanced Intelligence

* 00:19:49 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:22:57 - Fun With Media Generation

* 00:27:32 - You Drive Me Crazy

* 00:30:51 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:33:56 - The Art of the Jailbreak

* 00:34:06 - Get Involved

* 00:34:21 -…