It slices. It dices. Or, at least, it sees, hears, talks, creates stunningly good images and browses the web. Welcome to the newly updated GPT-4. That's all in two weeks. Throw in Microsoft 365 Copilot finally coming online soon.

Are we back? I’m guessing we’re back. Also it's that much closer to being all over. At some point this stops being a ying-yang thing and more of a we-all-die thing. For now, however? We’re so back.

Are we so back that AGI has been achieved internally at OpenAI? Because Sam Altman literally said that straight up in a Reddit post? No, no, that was an obvious joke, we are not quite that back, why do you people have no chill?

Table of Contents

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Outline:

(00:54) Table of Contents

(03:27) GPT-4 Real This Time

(10:42) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(12:29) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(14:14) The Reversal Curse

(17:57) Wouldn’t You Prefer a Nice Game of Chess?

(21:55) Fun with Image Generation

(23:02) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(26:11) They Took Our Jobs

(28:20) Get Involved

(29:23) Introducing

(30:08) Talking Real Money

(32:22) In Other AI News

(33:58) Quiet Speculations

(41:12) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(48:05) The Week in Audio

(48:30) Rhetorical Innovation

(56:01) Can You Please Speak Directly Into This Microphone

(56:41) No One Would Be So Stupid As To

(01:01:29) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:09:41) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:13:33) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:16:27) The Lighter Side

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