“AI #87: Staying in Character” by Zvi

The big news of the week was the release of a new version of Claude Sonnet 3.5, complete with its ability (for now only through the API) to outright use your computer, if you let it. It's too early to tell how big an upgrade this is otherwise. ChatGPT got some interface tweaks that, while minor, are rather nice, as well.

OpenAI, while losing its Senior Advisor for AGI Readiness, is also in in midst of its attempted transition to a B-corp. The negotiations about who gets what share of that are heating up, so I also wrote about that as The Mask Comes Off: At What Price? My conclusion is that the deal as currently floated would be one of the largest thefts in history, out of the nonprofit, largely on behalf of Microsoft.

The third potentially major story is reporting on a new lawsuit against [...]

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Outline:

(01:14) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(03:53) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(04:32) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(07:10) Character.ai and a Suicide

(12:23) Who and What to Blame?

(18:38) They Took Our Jobs

(19:51) Get Involved

(20:06) Introducing

(21:41) In Other AI News

(22:47) The Mask Comes Off

(27:26) Another One Bites the Dust

(31:30) Wouldn’t You Prefer a Nice Game of Chess

(32:55) Quiet Speculations

(34:54) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(38:10) The Week in Audio

(40:53) Rhetorical Innovation

(50:21) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:00:50) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:02:46) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:04:43) The Lighter Side

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First published:
October 29th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3AcK7Pcp9D2LPoyR2/ai-87-staying-in-character

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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