“AI #29: Take a Deep Breath” by Zvi

It works for the AI. Take a deep breath and work on this problem step-by-step was the strongest AI-generated custom instruction. You, a human, even have lungs and the ability to take an actual deep breath. You can also think step by step.

This week was especially friendly to such a proposal, allowing the shortest AI weekly to date and hopefully setting a new standard. It would be great to take some time for more long-term oriented posts on AI but also on things like the Jones Act, for catching my breath and, of course, some football.

And, of course, Happy New Year!

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Table of Contents.
3. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Take that deep breath.
4. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. Garbage in, garbage out.
5. Gary Marcus Claims LLMs Cannot Do Things GPT-4 Already Does. Indeed.

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   Outline:

   (00:41) Table of Contents

   (02:28) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

   (04:12) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

   (05:53) Gary Marcus Claims LLMs Cannot Do Things GPT-4 Already Does

   (10:35) Fun with Image Generation

   (11:16) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

   (14:11) Get Involved

   (15:28) Introducing

   (17:23) In Other AI News

   (19:11) Quiet Speculations

   (23:58) The Quest for Sane Regulations

   (27:33) The Week in Audio

   (27:50) Rhetorical Innovation

   (31:10) Were We As Stupid As To?

   (35:37) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

   (37:41) Can You Speak Louder Directly Into the Microphone

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   First published:
   September 14th, 2023

   Source:
   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/37LWXb3cvC7NLJN6x/ai-29-take-a-deep-breath

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   Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.