“AI #53: One More Leap” by Zvi

The main event continues to be the fallout from The Gemini Incident. Everyone is focusing there now, and few are liking what they see.

That does not mean other things stop. There were two interviews with Demis Hassabis, with Dwarkesh Patel's being predictably excellent. We got introduced to another set of potentially highly useful AI products. Mistral partnered up with Microsoft the moment Mistral got France to pressure the EU to agree to cripple the regulations that Microsoft wanted crippled. You know. The usual stuff.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Table of Contents.
3. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Copilot++ suggests code edits.
4. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. Still can’t handle email.
5. OpenAI Has a Sales Pitch. How does the sales team think about AGI?
6. The Gemini Incident. CEO Pinchai responds, others respond to that.
7. Political Preference Tests for LLMs. [...]

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Outline:

(00:39) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(05:00) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(06:15) OpenAI Has a Sales Pitch

(10:16) The Gemini Incident

(19:19) Political Preference Tests for LLMs

(22:13) GPT-4 Real This Time

(23:13) Fun with Image Generation

(23:57) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(33:00) They Took Our Jobs

(36:34) Get Involved

(36:46) Introducing

(40:08) In Other AI News

(41:46) Quiet Speculations

(45:13) Mistral Shows Its True Colors

(51:13) The Week in Audio

(51:47) Rhetorical Innovation

(54:43) Open Model Weights Are Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(01:02:54) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:05:03) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:06:36) The Lighter Side

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First published:
February 29th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FcaqbuYbPdesdkWiH/ai-53-one-more-leap

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.