AI #160: What Passes For a Pause

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* 00:00:57 - Table of Contents* 00:04:37 - Still Only Partial Cure For Cancer* 00:07:59 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:09:46 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:11:43 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:17:29 - Levels of Friction* 00:18:27 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:19:15 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:21:09 - Greetings From The Torment Nexus* 00:24:51 - Levels of Friction* 00:27:54 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:31:44 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:32:45 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:36:23 - Get Involved* 00:41:51 - Conditional Support For A Pause* 00:45:58 - In Other AI News* 00:49:48 - Show Me the Money* 00:50:32 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:52:15 - This Means Special Military Operation* 00:52:33 - Quiet Speculations* 00:53:27 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:55:36 - And Then There’s Emil Michael* 01:00:59 - Good Advice* 01:01:59 - Patriots and Tyrants* 01:07:57 - The Quest for Survival* 01:13:25 - Nashville Rules* 01:15:10 - People Really Hate AI* 01:24:01 - The OpenAI-a16z Anti-All-AI-Regulation Super PAC* 01:28:38 - Chip City* 01:32:20 - The Week in Audio* 01:34:12 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:39:32 - Instrumental Convergence* 01:41:04 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:47:43 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:49:00 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-160-what-passes-for-a-pause?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe