OpenAI is here this week to show us the money, as in a $100 billion investment from Nvidia and operationalization of a $400 billion buildout for Stargate. They are not kidding around when it comes to scale. They’re going to need it, as they are announcing soon a slate of products that takes inference costs to the next level.

After a full review and two reaction posts, I’ve now completed my primary coverage of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. The book is now a NYT bestseller, #7 in combined print and e-books nonfiction and #8 in hardcover fiction. I will of course cover any important developments from here but won’t be analyzing reviews and reactions by default.

We also had a conference of economic papers on AI, which were interesting throughout about particular aspects of AI economics, even though they predictably did not take future AI [...]

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Outline:

(01:15) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(04:09) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(07:35) Huh, Upgrades

(08:43) On Your Marks

(14:13) Choose Your Fighter

(16:52) Get My Agent On The Line

(17:27) Antisocial Media

(17:55) Copyright Confrontation

(18:57) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(19:49) Fun With Media Generation

(20:39) Unprompted Attention

(22:16) They Took Our Jobs

(30:42) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

(33:38) The Art of the Jailbreak

(35:05) Get Involved

(35:19) In Other AI News

(36:10) Glass Houses

(39:46) Show Me the Money

(41:30) Quiet Speculations

(50:24) Call For Action At The UN

(55:02) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:01:25) Chip City

(01:05:14) The Week in Audio

(01:05:23) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:10:12) Google Strengthens Its Safety Framework

(01:11:03) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:23:02) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:25:32) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

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