The week's big news was supposed to be Meta's release of two versions of Llama-3.

Everyone was impressed. These were definitely strong models.

Investors felt differently. After earnings yesterday showed strong revenues but that Meta was investing heavily in AI, they took Meta stock down 15%.

DeepMind and Anthropic also shipped, but in their cases it was multiple papers on AI alignment and threat mitigation. They get their own sections.

We also did identify someone who wants to do what people claim the worried want to do, who is indeed reasonably identified as a ‘doomer.’

Because the universe has a sense of humor, that person's name is Tucker Carlson.

Also we have a robot dog with a flamethrower.

Table of Contents

Previous post: On Llama-3 and Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast with Zuckerberg.

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Outline:

(00:53) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(08:52) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(12:09) Llama We Doing This Again

(15:57) Fun with Image Generation

(18:35) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(23:53) They Took Our Jobs

(25:10) Get Involved

(25:36) Introducing

(25:52) In Other AI News

(33:00) Quiet Speculations

(41:37) Rhetorical Innovation

(48:01) Wouldn’t You Prefer a Nice Game of Chess

(53:24) The Battle of the Board

(01:08:38) New Anthropic Papers

(01:24:29) New DeepMind Papers

(01:30:06) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:32:16) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:34:00) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:34:26) The Lighter Side

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First published:
May 2nd, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pPwt5ir2zFayLx7tH/ai-61-meta-trouble

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“AI #61: Meta Trouble” by Zvi

LessWrong (30+ Karma)