“AI #86: Just Think of the Potential” by Zvi

Dario Amodei is thinking about the potential. The result is a mostly good essay called Machines of Loving Grace, outlining what can be done with ‘powerful AI’ if we had years of what was otherwise relative normality to exploit it in several key domains, and we avoided negative outcomes and solved the control and alignment problems. As he notes, a lot of pretty great things would then be super doable.

Anthropic also offers us improvements to its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP, or what SB 1047 called an SSP). Still much left to do, but a clear step forward there.

Daniel Kokotajlo and Dean Ball have teamed up on an op-ed for Time on the need for greater regulatory transparency. It's very good.

Also, it's worth checking out the Truth Terminal saga. It's not as scary as it might look at first glance, but it is definitely [...]

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Outline:

(01:01) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(05:10) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(11:21) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(19:52) They Took Our Jobs

(20:33) Get Involved

(20:48) Introducing

(21:58) In Other AI News

(26:08) Truth Terminal High Weirdness

(34:54) Quiet Speculations

(44:45) Copyright Confrontation

(45:02) AI and the 2024 Presidential Election

(46:02) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(51:00) The Week in Audio

(53:40) Just Think of the Potential

(01:15:09) Reactions to Machines of Loving Grace

(01:25:32) Assuming the Can Opener

(01:32:32) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:35:41) Anthropic Updates its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP/SSP)

(01:41:35) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:43:36) The Lighter Side

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First published:
October 17th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zSNLvRBhyphwuYdeC/ai-86-just-think-of-the-potential

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