AI #155: Welcome to Recursive Self-Improvement

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:02:24 - Table of Contents* 00:05:54 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:30 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:46 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:07:33 - On Your Marks* 00:10:08 - Overcoming Bias* 00:11:08 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:12:22 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:15:38 - AI Conversations Are Not Privileged* 00:16:32 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:17:35 - The Superb Owl* 00:25:42 - A Word From The Torment Nexus* 00:30:25 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:39:58 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 00:40:08 - Introducing* 00:42:01 - In Other AI News* 00:47:06 - Show Me the Money* 00:48:03 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:58:40 - Future Shock* 01:00:56 - Memory Lane* 01:01:56 - Keep The Mask On Or You’re Fired* 01:03:24 - Quiet Speculations* 01:08:35 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:10:59 - Chip City* 01:14:36 - The Week in Audio* 01:14:54 - Constitutional Conversation* 01:15:53 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:23:58 - Working On It Anyway* 01:26:50 - The Thin Red Line* 01:28:14 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:35:57 - People Will Hand Over Power To The AIs* 01:36:57 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:37:54 - Famous Last Words* 01:45:15 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:47:27 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-155-welcome-to-recursive-self?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe