“AI #24: Week of the Podcast” by Zvi

In addition to all the written developments, this was a banner week for podcasts.

I would highlight four to consider listening to.

1. Dario Amodei of Anthropic went on The Lunar Society to talk to Dwarkesh Patel. We got our best insight so far into where Dario’s head is at, Dwarkesh is excellent at getting people to open up like this and really dive into details.
2. Jan Leike, OpenAI’s head of alignment, went on 80,000 hours with Robert Wiblin. If you want to know what is up with the whole superalignment effort, this was pretty great, and left me more optimistic. I still don’t think the alignment plan will work, but there’s a ton of great understanding of the problems ahead and an invitation to criticism, and a clear intention to avoid active harm, so we can hope for a pivot as they learn more.

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   Outline:

   (01:34) Table of Contents

   (03:36) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

   (07:07) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

   (14:02) GPT-4 Real This Time

   (16:40) Fun with Image Generation

   (16:55) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

   (18:12) They Took Our Jobs

   (21:22) Introducing

   (22:18) In Other AI News

   (32:26) There Seems To Be a Standard Issue RLHF Morality

   (35:33) Quiet Speculations

   (44:55) The Quest for Sane Regulations

   (50:48) The Week in Audio

   (01:10:17) Rhetorical Innovation

   (01:13:07) No One Would Be So Stupid As To

   (01:13:49) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

   (01:16:10) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

   (01:16:50) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

   (01:17:29) The Lighter Side

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   First published:
   August 10th, 2023

   Source:
   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8WaQ9HGDFxT5ysgot/ai-24-week-of-the-podcast

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