“AI #98: World Ends With Six Word Story” by Zvi

The world is kind of on fire. The world of AI, in the very short term and for once, is not, as everyone recovers from the avalanche that was December, and reflects.

Altman was the star this week. He has his six word story, and he had his interview at Bloomberg and his blog post Reflections. I covered the later two of those in OpenAI #10, if you read one AI-related thing from me this week that should be it.

Table of Contents

1. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. It knows where you live.
2. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. I see why you’re not interested.

Power User. A flat subscription fee for a high marginal cost service. Oh no.

Locked In User. No one else can ever know.

Read the Classics. Why do we even read Aristotle, anyway?

Deepfaketown [...]

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Outline:

(00:34) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(04:51) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(13:25) Power User

(18:04) Locked In User

(19:14) Read the Classics

(23:58) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(24:11) Fun With Image Generation

(25:11) They Took Our Jobs

(25:35) Question Time

(29:43) Get Involved

(30:02) Introducing

(30:28) In Other AI News

(32:34) Quiet Speculations

(37:19) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(38:43) The Least You Could Do

(44:55) Six Word Story

(47:31) The Week in Audio

(47:55) And I Feel Fine

(55:26) Rhetorical Innovation

(58:07) Liar Liar

(59:12) Feel the AGI

(01:01:57) Regular Americans Hate AI

(01:04:18) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:11:31) The Lighter Side

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First published:
January 9th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xkpPLR3S4SASPeTgC/ai-98-world-ends-with-six-word-story

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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