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Alignment Newsletter Podcast

by Rohin Shah et al.

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The Alignment Newsletter is a weekly publication with recent content relevant to AI alignment.This podcast is an audio version, recorded by Robert Miles (http://robertskmiles.com)More information about the newsletter at: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/

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  1. Alignment Newsletter #173: Recent language model results from DeepMind

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg HIGHLIGHTS Scaling Language Models: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Training…

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  2. Alignment Newsletter #172: Sorry for the long hiatus!

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg Sorry for the long hiatus! I was really busy over the past few months and just…

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  3. Alignment Newsletter #171: Disagreements between alignment "optimists" and "pessimists"

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg HIGHLIGHTS Alignment difficulty (Richard Ngo and Eliezer Yudkowsky) (summarized by...

  4. Alignment Newsletter #170: Analyzing the argument for risk from power-seeking AI

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg HIGHLIGHTS Draft report on existential risk from power-seeking AI (Joe Carlsmith)...

  5. Alignment Newsletter #169: Collaborating with humans without human data

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg HIGHLIGHTS Collaborating with Humans without Human Data (DJ Strouse et al)…

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  6. Alignment Newsletter #168: Four technical topics for which Open Phil is soliciting grant proposals

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg HIGHLIGHTS Request for proposals for projects in AI alignment that work with deep...

  7. Alignment Newsletter #167: Concrete ML safety problems and their relevance to x-risk

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg HIGHLIGHTS Unsolved Problems in ML Safety (Dan Hendrycks, Nicholas Carlini, John...

  8. Alignment Newsletter #166: Is it crazy to claim we're in the most important century?

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg HIGHLIGHTS The "most important century" series (Holden Karnofsky) (summarized by...

  9. Alignment Newsletter #165: When large models are more likely to lie

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg HIGHLIGHTS TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods (Stephanie Lin et...

  10. Alignment Newsletter #164: How well can language models write code?

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg HIGHLIGHTS Program Synthesis with Large Language Models (Jacob Austin, Augustus…

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  11. Alignment Newsletter #163: Using finite factored sets for causal and temporal inference

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg This newsletter is a combined summary + opinion for the Finite Factored Sets…

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  12. Alignment Newsletter #162: Foundation models: a paradigm shift within AI

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  13. Alignment Newsletter #161: Creating generalizable reward functions for multiple tasks by learning a model of functional similarity

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  14. Alignment Newsletter #160: Building AIs that learn and think like people

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  15. Alignment Newsletter #159: Building agents that know how to experiment, by training on procedurally generated games

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  16. Alignment Newsletter #158: Should we be optimistic about generalization?

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  17. Alignment Newsletter #157: Measuring misalignment in the technology underlying Copilot

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  18. Alignment Newsletter #156: The scaling hypothesis: a plan for building AGI

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  19. Alignment Newsletter #155: A Minecraft benchmark for algorithms that learn without reward functions

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  20. Alignment Newsletter #154: What economic growth theory has to say about transformative AI

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  21. Alignment Newsletter #153: Experiments that demonstrate failures of objective robustness

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  22. Alignment Newsletter #152: How we've overestimated few-shot learning capabilities

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  23. Alignment Newsletter #151: How sparsity in the final layer makes a neural net debuggable

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  24. Alignment Newsletter #150: The subtypes of Cooperative AI research

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  25. Alignment Newsletter #149: The newsletter's editorial policy

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  26. Alignment Newsletter #148: Analyzing generalization across more axes than just accuracy or loss

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  27. Alignment Newsletter #147: An overview of the interpretability landscape

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  28. Alignment Newsletter #146: Plausible stories of how we might fail to avert an existential catastrophe

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  29. Alignment Newsletter #145: Our three year anniversary!

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  30. Alignment Newsletter #144: How language models can also be finetuned for non-language tasks

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  31. Alignment Newsletter #143: How to make embedded agents that reason probabilistically about their environments

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  32. Alignment Newsletter #142: The quest to understand a network well enough to reimplement it by hand

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  33. Alignment Newsletter #141: The case for practicing alignment work on GPT-3 and other large models

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  34. Alignment Newsletter #140: Theoretical models that predict scaling laws

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  35. Alignment Newsletter #139: How the simplicity of reality explains the success of neural nets

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  36. Alignment Newsletter #138: Why AI governance should find problems rather than just solving them

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  37. Alignment Newsletter #137: Quantifying the benefits of pretraining on downstream task performance

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  38. Alignment Newsletter #136: How well will GPT-N perform on downstream tasks?

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  39. Alignment Newsletter #135: Five properties of goal-directed systems

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  40. Alignment Newsletter #134: Underspecification as a cause of fragility to distribution shift

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  41. Alignment Newsletter #133: Building machines that can cooperate (with humans, institutions, or other machines)

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  42. Alignment Newsletter #132: Complex and subtly incorrect arguments as an obstacle to debate

    Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

  43. Alignment Newsletter #131: Formalizing the argument of ignored attributes in a utility function

    Recorded by Robert Miles More information about the newsletter here

  44. Alignment Newsletter #130: A new AI x-risk podcast, and reviews of the field

    Recorded by Robert Miles More information about the newsletter here

  45. Alignment Newsletter #129: Explaining double descent by measuring bias and variance

    Recorded by Robert Miles More information about the newsletter here

  46. Alignment Newsletter #128: Prioritizing research on AI existential safety based on its application to governance demands

    Recorded by Robert Miles More information about the newsletter here

  47. Alignment Newsletter #127: Rethinking agency: Cartesian frames as a formalization of ways to carve up the world into an agent and its environment

    Recorded by Robert Miles More information about the newsletter here

  48. Alignment Newsletter #126: Avoiding wireheading by decoupling action feedback from action effects

    Recorded by Robert Miles More information about the newsletter here

  49. Alignment Newsletter #125: Neural network scaling laws across multiple modalities

    Recorded by Robert Miles More information about the newsletter here

  50. Alignment Newsletter #124: Provably safe exploration through shielding

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The Alignment Newsletter is a weekly publication with recent content relevant to AI alignment.This podcast is an audio version, recorded by Robert Miles (http://robertskmiles.com)More information about the newsletter at: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/

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Alignment Newsletter Podcast has 100 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on July 21, 2022.

What is Alignment Newsletter Podcast about?

The Alignment Newsletter is a weekly publication with recent content relevant to AI alignment.This podcast is an audio version, recorded by Robert Miles (http://robertskmiles.com)More information about the newsletter at: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/

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Alignment Newsletter Podcast publishes weekly, based on its 100 episodes since November 2019.

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