What if they released the new best LLM, and almost no one noticed?

Google seems to have pulled that off this week with Gemini 2.5 Pro.

It's a great model, sir. I have a ton of reactions, and it's 90%+ positive, with a majority of it extremely positive. They cooked.

But what good is cooking if no one tastes the results?

Instead, everyone got hold of the GPT-4o image generator and went Ghibli crazy.

I love that for us, but we did kind of bury the lede. We also buried everything else. Certainly no one was feeling the AGI.

Also seriously, did you know Claude now has web search? It's kind of a big deal. This was a remarkably large quality of life improvement.

Table of Contents

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Outline:

(01:01) Table of Contents

(01:08) Google Fails Marketing Forever

(04:01) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(10:11) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(11:01) Huh, Upgrades

(13:48) On Your Marks

(15:48) Copyright Confrontation

(16:44) Choose Your Fighter

(17:22) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(19:35) They Took Our Jobs

(22:19) The Art of the Jailbreak

(24:40) Get Involved

(25:16) Introducing

(25:52) In Other AI News

(28:23) Oh No What Are We Going to Do

(31:50) Quiet Speculations

(34:24) Fully Automated AI RandD Is All You Need

(37:39) IAPS Has Some Suggestions

(42:56) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(48:32) We The People

(51:23) The Week in Audio

(52:29) Rhetorical Innovation

(59:42) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:05:18) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:05:33) Fun With Image Generation

(01:12:17) Hey We Do Image Generation Too

(01:14:25) The Lighter Side

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First published:
March 27th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nf3duFLsvH6XyvdAw/ai-109-google-fails-marketing-forever

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