Things were busy once again, partly from the Claude release but from many other sides as well. So even after cutting out both the AI coding agent Devin and the Gladstone Report along with previously covering OpenAI's board expansion and investigative report, this is still one of the longest weekly posts.

In addition to Claude and Devin, we got among other things Command-R, Inflection 2.5, OpenAI's humanoid robot partnership reporting back after only 13 days and Google DeepMind with an embodied cross-domain video game agent. You can definitely feel the acceleration.

The backlog expands. Once again, I say to myself, I will have to up my reporting thresholds and make some cuts. Wish me luck.

Table of Contents

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Outline:

(00:52) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(06:17) Claude 3 Offers Mundane Utility

(11:57) Prompt Attention

(17:28) Clauding Along

(27:19) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(31:33) GPT-4 Real This Time

(32:22) Copyright Confrontation

(33:34) Fun with Image Generation

(37:49) They Took Our Jobs

(40:38) Get Involved

(43:53) Introducing

(51:55) Inflection 2.5

(55:04) Paul Christiano Joins NIST

(01:01:38) In Other AI News

(01:07:40) Quiet Speculations

(01:23:06) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:31:34) The Week in Audio

(01:31:44) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:41:23) A Failed Attempt at Adversarial Collaboration

(01:48:37) Spy Versus Spy

(01:52:38) Shouting Into the Void

(01:54:55) Open Model Weights are Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(01:56:37) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:59:49) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(02:00:39) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(02:07:39) The Lighter Side

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