AI #173: AI Pauses

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* 00:03:06 - Table of Contents* 00:06:50 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:07:22 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:07:51 - On Your Marks* 00:13:41 - VirtueBench* 00:16:04 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:16:38 - Papers, Please* 00:17:05 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:18:46 - Goodhart’s Law Strikes Again* 00:19:32 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:22:12 - The MidJourney Full Body Imaging Scanner* 00:24:30 - Introducing* 00:26:00 - In Other AI News* 00:28:52 - Show Me the Money* 00:29:17 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:30:50 - Quiet Speculations* 00:33:28 - People Just Say Things* 00:36:58 - The Widened Path* 00:39:17 - Scott Alexander Lays Out His AI Opinions* 00:46:01 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:47:04 - Policy On The AI Exponential* 00:57:03 - Anthropic Offers Two Policy Frameworks* 00:58:08 - Obligations of Developers* 01:02:53 - Societal Resilience Measures* 01:04:12 - Economic Policy Framework* 01:09:49 - White House Pauses AI Deployment* 01:18:28 - The Once And Future Fable* 01:23:27 - How To Fix This Code* 01:25:11 - The End of Privacy* 01:26:38 - AIs Have Preferences* 01:29:27 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:32:13 - Chip City* 01:32:43 - The Week in Audio* 01:32:52 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:33:29 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:35:14 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:36:27 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-173-ai-pauses?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe