AI #168: Not Leading the Future

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* 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 Side

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