“AI #47: Meet the New Year” by Zvi

[NOTE: I forgot to post this to WP/LW/RSS on Thursday, so posting it now. Sorry about that.]

Will be very different from the old year by the time we are done. This year, it seems like various continuations of the old one. Sometimes I look back on the week, and I wonder how so much happened, while in other senses very little happened.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Table of Contents.
3. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. A high variance game of chess.
4. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. What even is productivity?
5. GPT-4 Real This Time. GPT store, teams accounts, privacy issues, plagiarism.
6. Liar Liar. If they work, why aren’t we using affect vectors for mundane utility?
7. Fun With Image Generation. New techniques, also contempt.
8. Magic: The Generating. Avoiding AI artwork proving beyond Hasbro's powers.
9. Copyright Confrontation. OpenAI [...]

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Outline:

(00:28) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(02:44) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(06:13) GPT-4 Real This Time

(12:30) Liar Liar

(13:50) Fun with Image Generation

(19:09) Magic: The Generating

(23:57) Copyright Confrontation

(27:30) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(29:08) They Took Our Jobs

(37:39) Get Involved

(37:48) Introducing

(38:41) In Other AI News

(41:18) Quiet Speculations

(51:33) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(54:57) The Week in Audio

(55:10) AI Impacts Survey

(57:29) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:14:41) Aligning a Human Level Intelligence is Still Difficult

(01:17:00) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:26:23) Won’t Get Fooled Again

(01:30:03) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:32:11) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:34:55) The Wit and Wisdom of Sam Altman

(01:38:15) The Lighter Side

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First published:
January 13th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iygs57bHJ36AvzpMh/ai-47-meet-the-new-year

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.