AI #168: Not Leading the Future

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* 00:00:29 - Table of Contents* 00:03:59 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:43 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:46 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:07:23 - Levels of Friction* 00:08:35 - On Your Marks* 00:10:04 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:13:14 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:14:34 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:16:38 - On AI Writing* 00:19:51 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:22:25 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:23:14 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:25:26 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 00:25:42 - Introducing* 00:26:24 - Claude Has Its Limits* 00:27:28 - Show Me the Money* 00:29:21 - Show Me The Compute* 00:31:08 - Quiet Speculations* 00:32:34 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:33:34 - Chip City* 00:34:41 - Pick Up The Phone* 00:35:17 - The Week in Audio* 00:35:45 - Rhetorical Innovation* 00:40:18 - Not Leading the Future* 00:46:14 - Elon Musk v OpenAI* 00:47:15 - People Just Say Things* 00:47:41 - People Just Publish Things* 00:48:39 - OpenAI Endroses Kosa And SB 315* 00:52:13 - The LLMs All Believe Roughly Similar Things* 00:54:58 - I Learned It By Reading YOU* 01:13:31 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:25:00 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:26:51 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:28:48 - People Worried About AI For Other Reasons* 01:29:17 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-168-not-leading-the-future?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe