“AI #76: Six Shorts Stories About OpenAI” by Zvi

If you’re looking forward to next week’s AI #77, I am going on a two-part trip this week. First I’ll be going to Steamboat in Colorado to give a talk, then I’ll be swinging by Washington, DC on Wednesday, although outside of that morning my time there will be limited. My goal is still to get #77 released before Shabbat dinner, we’ll see if that works. Some topics may of course get pushed a bit.

It’s crazy how many of this week’s developments are from OpenAI. You’ve got their voice mode alpha, JSON formatting, answering the letter from several senators, sitting on watermarking for a year, endorsement of three bills before Congress and also them losing a cofounder to Anthropic and potentially another one via sabbatical.

Also Google found to be a monopolist, we have the prompts for Apple Intelligence and other neat stuff like that.

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Outline:

(01:43) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(05:03) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(08:09) Activate Voice Mode

(12:23) Apple Intelligence

(16:38) Antitrust Antitrust

(19:39) Copyright Confrontation

(20:50) Fun with Image Generation

(22:06) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(26:25) They Took Our Jobs

(29:18) Chipping Up

(31:36) Get Involved

(31:56) Introducing

(33:31) In Other AI News

(43:20) Quiet Speculations

(47:40) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(49:48) That's Not a Good Idea

(54:05) The Week in Audio

(55:54) Exact Words

(01:01:54) Openly Evil AI

(01:09:06) Goodbye to OpenAI

(01:15:10) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:21:16) Open Weights Are Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(01:23:33) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:24:34) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:25:44) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:28:37) The Lighter Side

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First published:
August 8th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4GnsAtamtcrsTFmSf/ai-76-six-shorts-stories-about-openai

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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