“AI #3” by Zvi

Welcome to week three of the AI era. Another long week and another giant post. I intend to take a nice four-day vacation in Mexico starting today, during which I won’t do any writing. I’m sure the pace of things will slow down real soon now. I mean, they have to. Don’t they?

If not, I’m going to have to learn to make some deeper cuts on what gets included.

Table of Contents

1. Executive Summary
2. Market Perspectives
3. They Took Our Jobs
4. In Other AI News
5. Our Price Cheap
6. Bullet Time
7. The Once and Future Face of Sydney
8. Becoming the Mask
9. Large Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
10. Fun With Image Generation
11. Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
12. The War Against Knowledge
13. AI Know What You’re Thinking
14. AI Learns How to Love
15. Llama Would You Publish [...]

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Outline:

(00:28) Table of Contents

(01:52) Executive Summary

(04:05) Market Perspectives

(10:27) They Took Our Jobs

(14:39) In Other AI News

(16:03) Our Price Cheap

(22:11) Bullet Time

(24:12) The Once and Future Face of Sydney

(25:07) Becoming the Mask

(26:02) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(28:03) Fun With Image Generation

(30:42) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(35:52) The War Against Knowledge

(37:58) AI Know What You’re Thinking

(38:56) AI Learns How to Love

(40:38) Llama Would You Publish Your Language Model

(41:57) The Art of the Jailbreak

(43:40) The Waluigi Effect

(52:02) Podcasts Ho!

(54:39) A Modest Proposal

(56:11) There Is No Fire Alarm For Artificial Intelligence But There Are Warning Shots

(56:33) Shallow Trouble at DeepMind

(57:22) Sam Altman Watch

(57:32) Gary Marcus and a Proposed Regulation

(01:06:42) Relatively Reasonable Skeptical AI DontKillEveryoneism Takes

(01:26:06) Bad AI DontKillEveryoneism Takes

(01:49:52) We Reject Violence As We Do The Devil: In All Its Forms

(01:52:01) The Lighter Side

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First published:
March 9th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AgaBzvuBJg2evEjqh/ai-3

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.