“AI #56: Blackwell That Ends Well” by Zvi

Hopefully, anyway. Nvidia has a new chip.

Also Altman has a new interview.

And most of Inflection has new offices inside Microsoft.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Table of Contents.
3. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Open the book.
4. Clauding Along. Claude continues to impress.
5. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. What are you looking for?
6. Fun With Image Generation. Stable Diffusion 3 paper.
7. Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. Jesus Christ.
8. They Took Our Jobs. Noah Smith has his worst take amd commits to the bit.
9. Generative AI in Games. What are the important dangers?
10. Get Involved. EU AI office, IFP, Anthropic.
11. Introducing. WorldSim. The rabbit hole goes deep, if you want that.
12. Grok the Grok. Weights are out. Doesn’t seem like it matters much.
13. New Nivida Chip. Who dis?
14. Inflection Becomes Microsoft AI. [...]

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Outline:

(00:18) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(10:28) Clauding Along

(12:45) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(16:11) Fun with Image Generation

(21:00) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(24:20) They Took Our Jobs

(37:17) Generative AI in Games

(40:20) Get Involved

(41:38) Introducing

(51:03) Grok the Grok

(54:43) New Nvidia Chip

(56:40) Inflection Becomes Microsoft AI

(58:11) In Other AI News

(01:04:18) Wait Till Next Year

(01:11:57) Quiet Speculations

(01:20:03) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:25:20) The Week in Audio

(01:26:03) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:31:11) Read the Roon

(01:34:01) Pick Up the Phone

(01:36:17) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:45:14) Polls Show People Are Worried About AI

(01:52:29) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:54:57) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(02:04:57) The Lighter Side

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First published:
March 21st, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iH5Sejb4dJGA2oTaP/ai-56-blackwell-that-ends-well

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.