“AI #78: Some Welcome Calm” by Zvi

SB 1047 has been amended once more, with both strict improvements and big compromises. I cover the changes, and answer objections to the bill, in my extensive Guide to SB 1047. I follow that up here with reactions to the changes and some thoughts on where the debate goes from here. Ultimately, it is going to come down to one person: California Governor Gavin Newsom.

All of the debates we’re having matter to the extent they influence this one person. If he wants the bill to become law, it almost certainly will become law. If he does not want that, then it won’t become law, they never override a veto and if he makes that intention known then it likely wouldn’t even get to his desk. For now, he's not telling.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Table of Contents.
3. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. [...]

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Outline:

(00:52) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(04:39) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(06:49) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(08:00) The Art of the Jailbreak

(15:34) Get Involved

(16:33) Introducing

(17:44) In Other AI News

(20:27) Quiet Speculations

(27:51) SB 1047: Nancy Pelosi

(35:30) SB 1047: Anthropic

(39:59) SB 1047: Reactions to the Changes

(53:41) SB 1047: Big Picture

(55:45) The Week in Audio

(58:32) Rhetorical Innovation

(59:37) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:00:55) The Lighter Side

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First published:
August 22nd, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qGh9suEsb82hzBtSN/ai-78-some-welcome-calm

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