“AI #37: Moving Too Fast” by Zvi

We had OpenAI's dev day, where they introduced a host of new incremental feature upgrades including a longer context window, more recent knowledge cutoff, increased speed, seamless feature integration and a price drop. Quite the package. On top of that, they introduced what they call ‘GPTs’ that can let you configure a host of things to set up specialized proto-agents or widgets that will work for specialized tasks and be shared with others. I would love to mess around with that, once I have the time, and OpenAI's servers allow regular subscribers to get access.

In the meantime, even if you exclude all that, lots of other things happened this week. Thus, even with the spin-off, this is an unusually long weekly update. I swear, and this time I mean it, that I am going to raise the threshold for inclusion or extended discussion substantially going forward, across [...]

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Outline:

(00:57) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(01:37) Bard Tells Tales

(05:41) Fun with Image Generation

(10:15) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(14:34) The Art of the Jailbreak

(17:54) They Took Our Jobs

(22:23) Get Involved

(24:25) Introducing

(28:27) X Marks Its Spot

(34:20) In Other AI News

(44:13) Verification Versus Generation

(46:57) Bigger Tech Bigger Problems

(53:52) Executive Order Open Letter

(01:01:28) Executive Order Reactions Continued

(01:05:53) Quiet Speculations

(01:17:36) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:25:55) The Week in Audio

(01:26:14) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:36:44) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:38:08) Aligning a Dumber Than Human Intelligence Is Still Difficult

(01:42:10) Model This

(01:52:35) Open Source AI is Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(02:07:02) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(02:10:34) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(02:16:27) The Lighter Side

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First published:
November 9th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/44Cv4HFoWEZvFnL5u/ai-37-moving-too-fast

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.