“AI #60: Oh the Humanity” by Zvi

Many things this week did not go as planned.

Humane AI premiered its AI pin. Reviewers noticed it was, at best, not ready.

Devin turns out to have not been entirely forthright with its demos.

OpenAI fired two employees who had been on its superalignment team, Leopold Aschenbrenner and Pavel Izmailov for allegedly leaking information, and also more troubliningly lost Daniel Kokotajlo, who expects AGI very soon, does not expect it to by default go well, and says he quit ‘due to losing confidence that [OpenAI] would behave responsibly around the time of AGI.’ That's not good.

Nor is the Gab system prompt, although that is not a surprise. And several more.

On the plus side, my 80,000 Hours podcast finally saw the light of day, and Ezra Klein had an excellent (although troubling) podcast with Dario Amodei. And we got the usual mix [...]

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Outline:

(01:05) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(06:13) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(11:21) Oh the Humanity

(21:31) GPT-4 Real This Time

(23:12) Fun with Image Generation

(27:47) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(31:34) Devin in the Details

(35:36) Another Supposed System Prompt

(42:35) They Took Our Jobs

(45:37) Introducing

(47:42) In Other AI News

(52:47) Quiet Speculations

(01:00:29) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:00:47) The Problem: AI's Extreme Risks

(01:02:07) Overview

(01:03:16) Covered Frontier AI Models

(01:04:10) Oversight of Frontier Models

(01:06:49) Oversight Entity

(01:18:43) The Week in Audio

(01:27:51) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:32:41) Don’t Be That Guy

(01:33:47) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:42:24) Please Speak Directly Into the Microphone

(01:44:18) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:48:44) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:54:10) The Lighter Side

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First published:
April 18th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FAnxq8wFpfqGjeetC/ai-60-oh-the-humanity

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.