The big news this week was of course the release of Claude 3.0 Opus, likely in some ways the best available model right now. Anthropic now has a highly impressive model, impressive enough that it seems as if it breaks at least the spirit of their past commitments on how far they will push the frontier. We will learn more about its ultimate full capabilities over time.

We also got quite the conversation about big questions of one's role in events, which I immortalized as Read the Roon. Since publication Roon has responded, which I have edited into the post along with some additional notes.

That still leaves plenty of fun for the full roundup. We have spies. We have accusations of covert racism. We have Elon Musk suing OpenAI. We have a new summary of simulator theory. We have NIST, tasked with AI regulation, literally struggling [...]

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Outline:

(01:03) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(09:25) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(11:52) LLMs: How Do They Work?

(15:50) Copyright Confrontation

(17:34) Oh Elon

(18:47) We realized building AGI will require far more resources than we’d initially imagined

(19:59) We and Elon recognized a for-profit entity would be necessary to acquire those resources

(21:49) We advance our mission by building widely-available beneficial tools

(24:46) DNA Is All You Need

(27:21) GPT-4 Real This Time

(30:11) Fun with Image Generation

(33:16) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(34:16) They Took Our Jobs

(35:20) Get Involved

(36:41) Introducing

(37:19) In Other AI News

(44:48) More on Self-Awareness

(47:05) Racism Remains a Problem for LLMs

(50:33) Project Maven

(53:35) Quiet Speculations

(01:00:01) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:07:19) The Week in Audio

(01:09:21) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:18:46) Another Open Letter

(01:22:33) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:26:34) Security is Also Difficult, Although Perhaps Not This Difficult

(01:34:04) The Lighter Side

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