[NOTE: I forgot to post this to WP/LW/RSS on Thursday, so posting it now. Sorry about that.]

Will be very different from the old year by the time we are done. This year, it seems like various continuations of the old one. Sometimes I look back on the week, and I wonder how so much happened, while in other senses very little happened.

Table of Contents

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Outline:

(00:28) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(02:44) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(06:13) GPT-4 Real This Time

(12:30) Liar Liar

(13:50) Fun with Image Generation

(19:09) Magic: The Generating

(23:57) Copyright Confrontation

(27:30) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(29:08) They Took Our Jobs

(37:39) Get Involved

(37:48) Introducing

(38:41) In Other AI News

(41:18) Quiet Speculations

(51:33) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(54:57) The Week in Audio

(55:10) AI Impacts Survey

(57:29) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:14:41) Aligning a Human Level Intelligence is Still Difficult

(01:17:00) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:26:23) Won’t Get Fooled Again

(01:30:03) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:32:11) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:34:55) The Wit and Wisdom of Sam Altman

(01:38:15) The Lighter Side

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.