“AI #36: In the Background” by Zvi

Wow, what a week. We had the Executive Order, which I read here so you don’t have to and then I have a tabulation of the reactions of others.

Simultaneously there was the UK AI Summit.

There was also robust related discussion around Responsible Scaling Policies, and the various filings companies did in advance of the Summit.

I touched on Anthropic's RSP in particular in previous weeks, but I did not do a sufficiently close analysis and many others have offered more detailed thoughts as well, and the context has evolved.

So I am noting that I am not covering those important questions in the weekly roundup, and they will be covered by one or more later distinct posts. I also potentially owe an after action report from EA Global Boston, if I can find the time.

This post is instead about everything else.

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Outline:

(00:53) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(03:22) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(07:03) GPT-4 Real This Time

(10:11) Fun with Image Generation

(10:43) Best Picture

(15:19) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(20:25) They Took Our Jobs

(22:34) Get Involved

(22:55) OpenAI Frontier Risk and Preparedness Team

(27:03) Introducing

(28:25) In Other AI News

(33:13) Quiet Speculations

(37:45) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(38:47) 22756.

(42:51) 22756.2.

(43:14) 22756.4.

(44:15) The Week in Audio

(48:13) Rhetorical Innovation

(54:43) Open Source AI is Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(57:08) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

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

(01:02:39) Please Speak Directly Into This Microphone

(01:05:13) The Lighter Side

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First published:
November 2nd, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QLuoMnhR5XNAAWjJx/ai-36-in-the-background

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.