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160 – GAI is Imminent

Posted on April 20, 2022 by BayesianAdmin
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Four Major AI Advancements In One Week!

New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models – essentially everyone has been training large language models with a deeply suboptimal use of compute

Googles Pathways Language Model explains jokes, and it can distinguish cause and effect and understand counterfactuals

DALL-E 2 makes amazing art on demand

Socratic Modeling system

1:39:51  LW posts

Also mentioned:

Overcoming Bias: AI Language Progress

What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like

Github Copilot

Anthropic AI

The Mind Killer


Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?

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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult

Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Argument Screens Off Authority

Hug the Query

(edit: misspellings is how we prove we aren’t AIs :P)

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