This has been a rough week for pretty much everyone. While I have had to deal with many things, and oh how I wish I could stop checking any new sources for a while, others have had it far worse. I am doing my best to count my blessings and to preserve my mental health, and here I will stick to AI. As always, the AI front does not stop.

Table of Contents

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Outline:

(00:26) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

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

(09:53) GPT-4 Real This Time

(11:03) Fun with Image Generation

(16:14) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(17:03) They Took Our Jobs

(21:13) Get Involved

(21:39) Introducing

(27:56) In Other AI News

(30:25) Cool New Interpretability Paper

(33:20) So What Do We All Think of The Cool Paper?

(41:46) Alignment Work and Model Capability

(43:09) Quiet Speculations

(46:33) The Week in Audio

(47:39) Rhetorical Innovation

(57:27) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:05:25) Aligning Dumber Than Human Intelligences is Also Difficult

(01:08:01) Open Source AI is Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(01:10:11) Predictions are Hard Especially About the Future

(01:13:47) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:22:36) The Lighter Side

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