“AI #57: All the AI News That’s Fit to Print” by Zvi

Welcome, new readers!

This is my weekly AI post, where I cover everything that is happening in the world of AI, from what it can do for you today (‘mundane utility’) to what it can promise to do for us tomorrow, and the potentially existential dangers future AI might pose for humanity, along with covering the discourse on what we should do about all of that.

You can of course Read the Whole Thing, and I encourage that if you have the time and interest, but these posts are long, so they also designed to also let you pick the sections that you find most interesting. Each week, I pick the sections I feel are the most important, and put them in bold in the table of contents.

Not everything here is about AI. I did an economics roundup on Tuesday, and a general monthly roundup [...]

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Outline:

(01:16) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(06:58) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(08:37) Stranger Things

(09:09) Clauding Along

(16:30) Fun with Image Generation

(19:01) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(21:29) They Took Our Jobs

(24:19) Introducing

(26:27) In Other AI News

(28:59) Loud Speculations

(31:10) Quiet Speculations

(36:04) Principles of Microeconomics

(44:54) The Full IDAIS Statement

(45:37) Consensus Statement on Red Lines in Artificial Intelligence

(47:54) Roadmap to Red Line Enforcement

(50:19) Conclusion

(50:49) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(56:38) The Week in Audio

(57:29) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:13:41) How Not to Regulate AI

(01:25:48) The Three Body Problem (Spoiler-Free)

(01:27:11) AI Doomer Dark Money Astroturf Update

(01:36:35) Evaluating a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:50:15) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:53:32) AI is Deeply Unpopular

(01:53:47) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:55:43) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:57:31) Wouldn’t You Prefer a Good Game of Chess?

(02:00:03) The Lighter Side

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First published:
March 28th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5Dz3ZrwBzzMfaucrH/ai-57-all-the-ai-news-that-s-fit-to-print

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.