Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the state of the AI. Which labs are in front? Which alignment solutions might work? How will the public react to more capable AI? You can read more about Connor's work at https://conjecture.dev

Timestamps:

00:00 Landscape of AI research labs

10:13 Is AGI a useful term?

13:31 AI predictions

17:56 Reinforcement learning from human feedback

29:53 Mechanistic interpretability

33:37 Yudkowsky and Christiano

41:39 Cognitive Emulations

43:11 Public reactions to AI

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