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“AI #39: The Week of OpenAI” by Zvi
The board firing Sam Altman, then reinstating him, dominated everything else this week. Other stuff also happened, but definitely focus on that first.
Table of Contents
Developments at OpenAI were far more important than everything else this read. So you can read this timeline of events over the weekend, and this attempt to put all the information together.
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Outline:
(00:16) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(01:09) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
(04:50) The Q Continuum
(05:47) OpenAI: The Saga Continues
(13:29) Altman Could Step Up
(14:59) You Thought This Week Was Tough
(16:15) Fun with Image Generation
(16:37) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(17:28) They Took Our Jobs
(18:07) Get Involved
(18:30) Introducing
(19:17) In Other AI News
(20:42) Quiet Speculations
(24:00) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(27:19) That Is Not What Totalitarianism Means
(31:39) The Week in Audio
(34:13) Rhetorical Innovation
(39:21) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(46:24) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
(47:54) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone
(49:18) The Lighter Side
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First published:
November 23rd, 2023
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3FCfEqRiLLb4gFu3H/ai-39-the-week-of-openai
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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The board firing Sam Altman, then reinstating him, dominated everything else this week. Other stuff also happened, but definitely focus on that first.
Table of Contents
Developments at OpenAI were far more important than everything else this read. So you can read this timeline of events over the weekend, and this attempt to put all the information together.
---
Outline:
(00:16) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(01:09) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
(04:50) The Q Continuum
(05:47) OpenAI: The Saga Continues
(13:29) Altman Could Step Up
(14:59) You Thought This Week Was Tough
(16:15) Fun with Image Generation
(16:37) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(17:28) They Took Our Jobs
(18:07) Get Involved
(18:30) Introducing
(19:17) In Other AI News
(20:42) Quiet Speculations
(24:00) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(27:19) That Is Not What Totalitarianism Means
(31:39) The Week in Audio
(34:13) Rhetorical Innovation
(39:21) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(46:24) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
(47:54) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone
(49:18) The Lighter Side
---
First published:
November 23rd, 2023
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3FCfEqRiLLb4gFu3H/ai-39-the-week-of-openai
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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