“AI #64: Feel the Mundane Utility” by Zvi

It's happening. The race is on.

Google and OpenAI both premiered the early versions of their fully multimodal, eventually fully integrated AI agents. Soon your phone experience will get more and more tightly integrated with AI. You will talk to your phone, or your computer, and it will talk back, and it will do all the things. It will hear your tone of voice and understand your facial expressions. It will remember the contents of your inbox and all of your quirky preferences.

It will plausibly be a version of Her, from the hit movie ‘Are we sure about building this Her thing, seems questionable?’

OpenAI won this round of hype going away, because it premiered, and for some modalities released, the new GPT-4o. GPT-4o is tearing up the Arena, and in many ways is clearly giving the people what they want. If nothing else, it [...]

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Outline:

(02:34) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(07:15) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(11:35) Bumbling and Mumbling

(13:56) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(17:23) They Took Our Jobs

(22:44) In Other AI News

(26:24) Quiet Speculations

(28:18) The Week in Audio

(37:54) Brendan Bordelon Big Tech Business as Usual Lobbying Update

(44:29) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(59:14) The Schumer AI Working Group Framework

(01:00:06) Those That Assume Everyone Is Talking Their Books

(01:04:19) Lying About SB 1047

(01:08:02) More Voices Against Governments Doing Anything

(01:14:34) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:19:21) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:23:09) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:25:25) The Lighter Side

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First published:
May 16th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/29fswYuy6KB8Edbjm/ai-64-feel-the-mundane-utility

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.