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“AI #77: A Few Upgrades” by Zvi

102 min • 20 augusti 2024

[Apologies for forgetting to cross-post this and the Monthly Roundup earlier.]

Let's see. We’ve got a new version of GPT-4o, a vastly improved Grok 2 with a rather good and unrestricted deepfake and other image generator now baked into Twitter, the announcement of the AI powered Google Pixel 9 coming very soon and also Google launching a voice assistant. Anthropic now has prompt caching.

Also OpenAI has its final board member, Zico Kolter, who is nominally a safety pick, and SB 1047 got importantly amended again which I’ll cover in full next week once the details are out.

There was also the whole paper about the fully automated AI scientist from the company whose name literally means ‘danger’ in Hebrew, that instantiated copies of itself, took up unexpectedly large amounts of storage space, downloaded strange Python libraries and tried to edit its code to remove the [...]

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Outline:

(01:08) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(04:45) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(08:01) GPT-4o My System Card

(15:49) 2 Grok 2 Furious 2 Quit

(25:32) Pixel Perfect

(27:52) Fun with Image Generation

(28:13) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(34:15) The Art of the Jailbreak

(43:48) They Took Our Jobs

(45:27) Obvious Nonsense