What is the mysterious impressive new ‘gpt2-chatbot’ from the Arena? Is it GPT-4.5? A refinement of GPT-4? A variation on GPT-2 somehow? A new architecture? Q-star? Someone else's model? Could be anything. It is so weird that this is how someone chose to present that model.

There was also a lot of additional talk this week about California's proposed SB 1047.

I wrote an additional post extensively breaking that bill down, explaining how it would work in practice, addressing misconceptions about it and suggesting fixes for its biggest problems along with other improvements. For those interested, I recommend reading at least the sections ‘What Do I Think The Law Would Actually Do?’ and ‘What are the Biggest Misconceptions?’

As usual, lots of other things happened as well.

Table of Contents

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Outline:

(01:00) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(06:00) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(06:27) GPT-2 Soon to Tell

(11:04) Fun with Image Generation

(12:15) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(13:29) They Took Our Jobs

(14:22) Get Involved

(15:14) Introducing

(15:18) In Other AI News

(18:02) Quiet Speculations

(24:03) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(43:20) The Week in Audio

(48:32) Rhetorical Innovation

(51:31) Open Weights Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This

(57:54) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(58:19) The Lighter Side

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