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Episode Synopsis
Four Major AI Advancements In One Week!
New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models – essentially everyone has been training large language models with a deeply suboptimal use of compute
Googles Pathways Language Model explains jokes, and it can distinguish cause and effect and understand counterfactuals
DALL-E 2 makes amazing art on demand
Socratic Modeling system
1:39:51 LW posts
Also mentioned:
Overcoming Bias: AI Language Progress
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
Github Copilot
Anthropic AI
The Mind Killer
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult
Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:
Argument Screens Off Authority
Hug the Query
(edit: misspellings is how we prove we aren’t AIs :P)
New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models – essentially everyone has been training large language models with a deeply suboptimal use of compute
Googles Pathways Language Model explains jokes, and it can distinguish cause and effect and understand counterfactuals
DALL-E 2 makes amazing art on demand
Socratic Modeling system
1:39:51 LW posts
Also mentioned:
Overcoming Bias: AI Language Progress
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
Github Copilot
Anthropic AI
The Mind Killer
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult
Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:
Argument Screens Off Authority
Hug the Query
(edit: misspellings is how we prove we aren’t AIs :P)
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