“AI #176 Part 1: Doing It Live” by Zvi
“AI #176 Part 1: Doing It Live” by Zvi  
Podcast: LessWrong (30+ Karma)
Published On: Fri Jul 10 2026
Description: Enough things added up that this week is getting split into two parts. Then on Monday, if all goes as I expect, we’ll cover OpenAI's Sol, aka GPT-5.6. OpenAI also gave us an upgraded voice mode, which I haven’t tried out but early reports are that it is a step change. AI writing, especially Claude writing, is becoming more prominent and harder not to notice, and increasingly a tough read when encountered in the wild. Does anyone care? Or are those who care the weird ones here? This week saw an excellent paper, which I cover in No Space Like J-Space. Technically we also got Grok 4.5. Table of Contents Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. A whole new world. Language Models Gain Unexpected Affordances. Wait, you can just do that? Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. Things get old. Pay The Man His Money. You have a few more days with marginally free Fable. Huh, Upgrades. Anthropic raises API platform limits. Grok 4.5 Exists. It might be okay for its price. F*** It We’re Doing It Live. OpenAI gives us a big upgrade to voice [...] ---Outline:(00:54) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility(03:21) Language Models Gain Unexpected Affordances(06:12) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility(06:54) Pay The Man His Money(07:37) Huh, Upgrades(07:45) Grok 4.5 Exists(09:12) F\*\*\* It We're Doing It Live(10:24) On Your Marks(11:13) Better Call Sol(22:40) Get My Agent On The Line(23:29) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon(25:33) Fool Me Twice(27:23) I Like Your Style(33:28) Enough With That Style(36:58) Fun With Media Generation(38:51) Copyright Confrontation(39:30) Cyber Lack of Security(39:52) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer(45:56) They Took Our Jobs(51:07) Get Involved(52:10) In Other AI News(56:44) Show Me the Money(57:09) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble --- First published: July 9th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/M9eLyMsH5DLjMYL86/ai-176-part-1-doing-it-live --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.