While I was in San Francisco, the big head honchos headed for Davos, where AI was the talk of the town. As well it should be, given what will be coming soon. It did not seem like anyone involved much noticed or cared about the existential concerns. That is consistent with the spirit of Davos, which has been not noticing or caring about things that don’t directly impact your business or vibe since (checks notes by which I mean an LLM) 1971. It is what it is.

Otherwise we got a relatively quiet week. For once the scheduling worked out and I avoided the Matt Levine curse. I’m happy for the lull to continue so I can pay down more debt and focus on long term projects and oh yeah also keep us all farther away from potential imminent death.

Table of Contents

Introduction.
---
Outline:
(00:51) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(03:33) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
(03:58) Copyright Confrontation
(05:13) Fun with Image Generation
(05:31) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(08:20) They Took Our Jobs
(09:10) Get Involved
(09:47) In Other AI News
(12:43) Quiet Speculations
(17:26) Intelligence Squared
(27:22) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(30:33) (3) Artificial intelligence
(32:48) Open Model Weights Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This
(45:16) The Week in Audio
(48:54) Rhetorical Innovation
(53:18) Malaria Accelerationism
(54:54) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(57:57) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone
(01:01:09) The Lighter Side
---

First published:
January 25th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bWnonYFj4rwtXuErK/ai-48-the-talk-of-davos
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“AI #48: The Talk of Davos” by Zvi

LessWrong (30+ Karma)