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Cal Newport

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

The fact that they gave them access itself should make us maybe a little bit suspect, but it basically just showed like normal progression, no massive leap.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Model by model gets a little bit better on some of these tests and benchmarks, and Mythos has no out-of-scale leap.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It's just like on some, it's about the same.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

On some, it's a little bit better.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And yet it got covered as if we had just turned on Whopper from the movie War Games.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Like we had just some new entity that was like on its own undermining security.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And I do not think that โ€“ I think that was highly credulous coverage of what almost certainly is just like a standard slight jagged move forward on these various capabilities that we've been seeing for the last three years.

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That is the number of people who take the stairs when there is also an escalator available.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I'm Michael Easter, and on my podcast, 2%, I break down the science of mental toughness, fitness, and building resilience in our strange modern world.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I'll be speaking with writers, researchers, and other health and fitness experts and more to look past the impractical and way too complex pseudoscience that dominates the wellness industry.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Listen to 2%, that's T-W-O percent, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Can I say why I'm upset at AISI?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I talked about them on my- Two weeks ago, I did a, or through, I don't know when this is coming out, but I did a podcast in whenever, March, where I looked at this report, and mainly I looked at the Guardian's coverage of this report done by AISI, but it was just the most inane thing.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

The headline was, massive increase in AI scheming is detected.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And they had a chart- God damn it.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And bad line went up and it went up in like January and it goes up.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And if you read this article about this study, they're like, something's going on.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Scheming has been increasing rapidly recently.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And they like gave some examples of it or whatever.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And so I look at this, like, I want to look at what is going on here.