#241: Pacing the Frontier Gets Political, Why AI Labs Could Keep the Best Models for Themselves & Introducing the AI Transformation Blueprint

Paul Roetzer (0:00)

They don't understand what they've built, and they don't know how to stop as they build more intelligent versions of this, which they already have in the labs. They don't know how to protect us. And so, the idea that they're just going to magically figure this out in the next two months and not have this go bad, it doesn't make any sense.

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Welcome to Episode 241 of The Artificial Intelligence Show. I am your host, Paul Roetzer, along with my co-host, Mike Kaput. We are recording Monday, September 21st, 9 a.m. Eastern Time. There's lots of rumors about new models this week, Mike. It sounds like we might get a few new models this week. I think Anthropic, OpenAI is rumored to be having, what do they call them, the new one? It's not Sol, it's, I don't know.

Mike Kaput (1:23)

It's very hard to keep track at this stage. I think there's like a GPT-6 Sol coming out, but also something, yeah, we'll see.

Paul Roetzer (1:31)

Yeah, and then, you know, it's one of these days, one of these months, Google's going to decide to get back in the game and drop Gemini 4, so who knows? We'll see what the week brings for us. All right, so this episode is brought to us by Marketing AI Month. This is the month of September. We announced this at the start of the month.

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Mike Kaput (3:22)

Yeah, so we're running one still seeing what people's sentiment is around AI and if it's specifically changed in the last six months, given all the news and controversy we've seen. So we're collecting responses for another week on that, and we'll share the results on next week's episode.

Paul Roetzer (3:38)

That is smarterx.ai/pulse.

It takes all of about 10 seconds to participate. So go there, again, smarterx.ai/pulse and give us your feedback there, and then we'll share that next week. Okay. We're going to talk about the politics stuff. Again, not my favorite thing to talk about, but we can't avoid it at the moment. We're going to get a little bit of what's going on there. We're going to talk about the AI labs, the rate of progress being made.

We have some new data points to share, I guess, and talk a little bit about that. Then we have a big announcement that we decided all about 20 minutes ago that I was going to make on this podcast today. Those are going to be our three main topics for the day. Go ahead and kick us off, Mike, with everything happening in the world of AI and politics.

Mike Kaput (4:29)

All right, Paul.