Welcome to week three of the AI era. Another long week and another giant post. I intend to take a nice four-day vacation in Mexico starting today, during which I won’t do any writing. I’m sure the pace of things will slow down real soon now. I mean, they have to. Don’t they?

If not, I’m going to have to learn to make some deeper cuts on what gets included.

Table of Contents

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Outline:

(00:28) Table of Contents

(01:52) Executive Summary

(04:05) Market Perspectives

(10:27) They Took Our Jobs

(14:39) In Other AI News

(16:03) Our Price Cheap

(22:11) Bullet Time

(24:12) The Once and Future Face of Sydney

(25:07) Becoming the Mask

(26:02) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(28:03) Fun With Image Generation

(30:42) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(35:52) The War Against Knowledge

(37:58) AI Know What You’re Thinking

(38:56) AI Learns How to Love

(40:38) Llama Would You Publish Your Language Model

(41:57) The Art of the Jailbreak

(43:40) The Waluigi Effect

(52:02) Podcasts Ho!

(54:39) A Modest Proposal

(56:11) There Is No Fire Alarm For Artificial Intelligence But There Are Warning Shots

(56:33) Shallow Trouble at DeepMind

(57:22) Sam Altman Watch

(57:32) Gary Marcus and a Proposed Regulation

(01:06:42) Relatively Reasonable Skeptical AI DontKillEveryoneism Takes

(01:26:06) Bad AI DontKillEveryoneism Takes

(01:49:52) We Reject Violence As We Do The Devil: In All Its Forms

(01:52:01) The Lighter Side

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