Another busy week. GPT-5 starts, Biden and Xi meet and make somewhat of a deal, GPTs get explored, the EU AI Act on the verge of collapse by those trying to kill the part that might protect us, multiple very good podcasts. A highly interesting paper on potential deceptive alignment.

Despite things quieting down the last few days, it is still a lot. Hopefully things can remain quiet for a bit, perhaps I can even get in more work on that Jones Act post.

Table of Contents

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Outline:

(00:39) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(05:11) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(10:49) GPT-4 Real This Time

(14:11) Fun with Image Generation

(15:12) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(15:59) A Bad Guy With an AI

(22:46) They Took Our Jobs

(32:57) Get Involved

(34:29) Introducing

(35:18) In Other AI News

(42:00) Quiet Speculations

(43:32) Anti Anti Trust

(44:24) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(57:39) Bostrom Goes Unheard

(58:18) The Week in Audio

(59:37) Someone Picked Up the Phone

(01:01:15) Mission Impossible

(01:02:17) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:05:21) Open Source AI is Insafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(01:13:19) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:36:02) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:37:37) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:40:33) The Lighter Side

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