Both Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis were given the Nobel Prize this week, in Physics and Chemistry respectively. Congratulations to both of them along with all the other winners. AI will be central to more and more of scientific progress over time. This felt early, but not as early as you would think.

The two big capability announcements this week were OpenAI's canvas, their answer to Anthropic's artifacts to allow you to work on documents or code outside of the chat window in a way that seems very useful, and Meta announcing a new video generation model with various cool features, that they’re wisely not releasing just yet.

I also have two related corrections from last week, and an apology: Joshua Achiam is OpenAI's new head of Mission Alignment, not of Alignment as I incorrectly said. The new head of Alignment Research is Mia Glaese. That mistake [...]

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(01:30) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(09:10) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(13:11) Blank Canvas

(17:13) Meta Video

(18:58) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(21:22) They Took Our Jobs

(24:45) Get Involved

(26:01) Introducing

(26:14) AI Wins the Nobel Prize

(28:51) In Other AI News

(30:05) Quiet Speculations

(34:22) The Mask Comes Off

(37:17) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(41:02) The Week in Audio

(43:13) Rhetorical Innovation

(48:20) The Carbon Question

(50:27) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(55:48) People Are Trying Not to Die

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