Inflection.ai is the latest AI lab whose CEO is advocating for regulation of AI. I discuss that under the Quest for Sane Regulation. Amazon and Apple are incrementally stepping up their AI game. Hotz and Yudkowsky debate whether AI is existentially risky, cover all the usual bases with mixed results but do so in good faith. We have more discussion about whether GPT-4 is creative, and whether it can reason. Mostly we get the exact opposite of the title, more of the same.

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Table of Contents

Introduction.
Table of Contents.
Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Creativity is hard to pin down.
Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. It’s the other way.
GPT-4 Real This Time. An easy way to prove ability to do something is to do it.
Go Team Yeah. If you organize the events and award points, they will red team.
Fun With Image Generation. Some have fun, others have less fun.
Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. Doesn’t have to be this soon.
They Took Our Jobs. Low estimates of economic impact, strange metaphors.
Get Involved. Anthropic is hiring for comms positions.
Introducing. Amazon AI customer review summaries, private-GPT, AI town.
In Other AI News. Apple joins the AI chorus, questions on influence functions.
Quiet Speculations. Let’s play the straight line extrapolation game.
The Quest for Sane Regulation. Inflection.ai’s CEO steps into the arena.
The Week in Audio. Hotz and Yudkowsky debate.
People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone. Quite a lot of people.
Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone. All wrong anyways.
The Lighter Side. A well-deserved break.

Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

Replace crowdsourcing your business ideas, get a lower variance, lower upside set of concepts with a similar average quality. Does not seem especially useful, but can get ideas flowing perhaps. The AIs can give you many ideas, but were not very creative.

The connection between semantic diversity and novelty is stronger in human solutions, suggesting differences in how novelty is created by humans and AI or detected by human evaluators.

Alice Maz lays out how they get mundane utility from GPT,...