“AI #82: The Governor Ponders” by Zvi

The big news of the week was of course OpenAI releasing their new model o1. If you read one post this week, read that one. Everything else is a relative sideshow.

Meanwhile, we await Newsom's decision on SB 1047. The smart money was always that Gavin Newsom would make us wait before offering his verdict on SB 1047. It's a big decision. Don’t rush him. In the meantime, what hints he has offered suggest he's buying into some of the anti-1047 talking points. I’m offering a letter to him here based on his comments, if you have any way to help convince him now would be the time to use that. But mostly, it's up to him now.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Table of Contents.
3. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Apply for unemployment.
4. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. How to avoid [...]

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Outline:

(00:49) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(02:11) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(03:34) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(05:59) They Took Our Jobs

(07:34) Get Involved

(08:09) Introducing

(10:11) In Other AI News

(13:20) Quiet Speculations

(15:15) Intelligent Design

(19:15) SB 1047: The Governor Ponders

(27:13) Letter to Newsom

(31:36) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(34:19) Rhetorical Innovation

(42:13) Claude Writes Short Stories

(45:54) Questions of Sentience

(48:22) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(49:56) The Lighter Side

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First published:
September 19th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y4nS3yMWfJdmeoLcQ/ai-82-the-governor-ponders

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