“AI #25: Inflection Point” by Zvi

Inflection.ai is the latest AI lab whose CEO is advocating for regulation of AI. I discuss that under the Quest for Sane Regulation. Amazon and Apple are incrementally stepping up their AI game. Hotz and Yudkowsky debate whether AI is existentially risky, cover all the usual bases with mixed results but do so in good faith. We have more discussion about whether GPT-4 is creative, and whether it can reason. Mostly we get the exact opposite of the title, more of the same.

Note: My posts get made into audio form via AI, for now you can listen to them at this link. This post will likely be available there later in the day on Thursday, or perhaps Friday.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Table of Contents.
3. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Creativity is hard to pin down.
4. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. [...]

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Outline:

(00:47) Table of Contents

(02:34) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(07:27) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(09:48) GPT-4 Real This Time

(18:57) Go Team Yeah

(22:22) Fun with Image Generation

(23:22) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(24:45) They Took Our Jobs

(28:54) Get Involved

(29:11) Introducing

(31:50) In Other AI News

(36:14) Quiet Speculations

(42:24) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(53:36) The Week in Audio

(54:37) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(59:35) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:05:26) The Lighter Side

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First published:
August 17th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fXnpnrazqwpJmbadu/ai-25-inflection-point

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.