Following up on the Biden Executive Order on AI, the White House has now issued an extensive memo outlining its AI strategy. The main focus is on government adaptation and encouraging innovation and competitiveness, but there's also sections on safety and international governance. Who knows if a week or two from now, after the election, we will expect any of that to get a chance to be meaningfully applied. If AI is your big issue and you don’t know who to support, this is as detailed a policy statement as you’re going to get.

We also have word of a new draft AI regulatory bill out of Texas, along with similar bills moving forward in several other states. It's a bad bill, sir. It focuses on use cases, taking an EU-style approach to imposing requirements on those doing ‘high-risk’ things, and would likely do major damage to the [...]

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Outline:

(01:37) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(06:39) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(15:40) In Summary

(17:53) Master of Orion

(20:01) Whispers in the Night

(25:10) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(25:39) Overcoming Bias

(29:43) They Took Our Jobs

(33:51) The Art of the Jailbreak

(44:36) Get Involved

“AI #88: Thanks for the Memos” by Zvi

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