The big news this week was Apple Intelligence being integrated deeply into all their products. Beyond that, we had a modestly better than expected debate over the new version of SB 1047, and the usual tons of stuff in the background. I got to pay down some writing debt.

The bad news is, oh no, I have been called for Jury Duty. The first day or two I can catch up on podcasts or pure reading, but after that it will start to hurt. Wish me luck.

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AiPhone covers the announcement of Apple Intelligence. Apple's products are getting device-wide integration of their own AI in a way they say preserves privacy, with access to ChatGPT via explicit approval for the heaviest requests. A late update: OpenAI is providing this service for free as per Bloomberg.

I offered Quotes from Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational [...]

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Outline:

(00:38) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(01:46) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(07:49) Fun with Image Generation

(10:09) Copyright Confrontation

(11:38) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(15:20) They Took Our Jobs

(16:33) Someone Explains it All

(19:20) The Art of the Jailbreak

(22:39) Get Involved

(22:46) Introducing

(25:18) In Other AI News

(27:56) Quiet Speculations

(32:17) I Spy With My AI

(34:40) Pick Up the Phone

(35:06) Lying to the White House, Senate and House of Lords

(39:48) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(43:52) More Reasonable SB 1047 Reactions

(51:12) Less Reasonable SB 1047 Reactions

(56:24) That's Not a Good Idea

(56:46) With Friends Like These

(58:13) The Week in Audio

(01:01:22) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:02:32) Mistakes Were Made

(01:03:36) The Sacred Timeline

(01:08:17) Coordination is Hard

(01:13:33) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:19:07) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:28:48) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:29:58) The Lighter Side

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