“AI #34: Chipping Away at Chip Exports” by Zvi

It did not get the bulk of the attention, but the actual biggest story this week was that America tightened the rules on its chip exports, closing the loophole Nvidia was using to create the A800 and H800. Perhaps the new restrictions will actually have teeth.

Also new capabilities continue to come in based on the recent GPT upgrades, along with the first signs of adversarial attacks.

Also a lot of rhetoric, including, yes, that manifesto. Yes, I do cover it.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Table of Contents.
3. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. A model made of gears.
4. Dalle-3 Complete Prompt. Here you go.
5. GPT-4 Real This Time. Begun, the adversarial vision attacks have.
6. Fun With Image Generation. Upscale the Mona Lisa, perhaps?
7. Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. Hi, I’m NYC Mayor Eric Adams.
8. People Genuinely Against Genuine People [...]

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Outline:

(00:36) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(01:31) Dalle-3 System Complete Prompt

(09:00) GPT-4 Real This Time

(12:16) Fun with Image Generation

(12:28) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(14:24) People Genuinely Against Genuine People Personalities

(19:11) They Took Our Jobs

(22:42) Get Involved

(24:13) Introducing

(25:07) In Other AI News

(32:15) Quiet Speculations

(33:27) Man With a Plan

(39:56) China

(45:00) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(50:26) The Chips Are Down

(54:09) The Week in Audio

(54:45) Yes, We Will Speak Directly Into This Microphone

(58:22) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:16:38) Open Source AI is Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(01:18:36) No One Would Be So Stupid As To

(01:19:09) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:20:49) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:25:36) New Bengio Interview

(01:31:36) Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto

(01:42:50) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:45:33) Other People Wonder Whether It Would Be Moral To Not Die

(01:46:38) The Lighter Side

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First published:
October 19th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ApPKqx9b8LogfKxAr/ai-34-chipping-away-at-chip-exports

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.