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“AI #103: Show Me the Money” by Zvi

112 min • 13 februari 2025

The main event this week was the disastrous Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit. Not only did we not build upon the promise of the Bletchley and Seoul Summits, the French and Americans did their best to actively destroy what hope remained, transforming the event into a push for a mix of nationalist jingoism, accelerationism and anarchism. It's vital and also difficult not to panic or despair, but it doesn’t look good. Another major twist was that Elon Musk made a $97 billion bid for OpenAI's nonprofit arm and its profit and control interests in OpenAI's for-profit arm. This is a serious complication for Sam Altman's attempt to buy those same assets for $40 billion, in what I’ve described as potentially the largest theft in human history. I’ll be dealing with that tomorrow, along with two other developments in my ongoing OpenAI series The Mask Comes Off. In Altman's Three Observations, he [...]

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Outline:

(01:55) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(06:03) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(08:07) We're in Deep Research

(13:54) Huh, Upgrades

(20:56) Seeking Deeply

(24:25) Smooth Operator

(29:15) They Took Our Jobs

(33:34) Maxwell Tabarrok Responds on Future Wages

(41:56) The Art of the Jailbreak

(46:34) Get Involved