(2023-07-13) ZviM AI #20 Code Interpreter And Claude 2.0 For Everyone

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #20: Code Interpreter and Claude 2.0 for Everyone. There is no shortage of people willing to talk about every week as a huge week in AI with tons of amazing new releases and announcements. At first this was usually right, then it mostly stopped being right. This week we had Code Interpreter and Claude 2.0 and x.AI (whatever that actually is) and a bunch of other stuff, while I was still processing OpenAI’s huge announcement of their Superalignment Taskforce. As usual, when there’s lots of great stuff that makes it that much harder to actually find time to play around with it. Things are good and also can be overwhelming.

And on another non-AI note, I’d like to highlight the Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive. We need more voices for progress generally, including to ensure AI goes well. Deadline is August 11. I am a big believer in blogging in particular and writing in general, as a way to think and understand the world, and also to share your knowledge with and connect with others, and increase your serendipity factor greatly. You need to be a good philosophical fit, but if you are, this is a great opportunity. The talent you’ll be working with will be top notch.

Table of Contents

• Introduction.
• Code Interpreter. Data science marvel now available. Minor flaws.
• Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Ask and ye shall receive.
• Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. Know your limitations.
• Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. When in doubt, let the police handle it.
• The Art of the Super Prompt. Code interpreter jailbreak hype.
• They Took Our Jobs. The question is which ones.
• Claude 2.0. I Estimate a gain of perhaps 0.15 GPTs from Claude 1.3.
• Introducing. So what is x.AI? That’s the thing, no one knows. Some sort of math.
• In Other AI News. People are still publishing their capabilities papers. You fool!
• Quiet Speculations. Are you are modeling transformative AI, or mundane AI?
• The Quest for Sane Regulation. DeepMind paper on this is good as far as it goes.
• The Week in Audio. Eliezer’s Ted talk, YT and not falling for RFK Jr.
• What Would Make You Update on the Major Labs? Several proposals.
• Rhetorical Innovation. How to respond to bad takes and bad faith arguments?
• No One Would Be So Stupid As To. Pro Tip: Ask ‘if the movie starts this way…’
• Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult. Wasting time is easy.
• People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone. Details matter.
• Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone. Jason Crawford engages with key questions and remains skeptical. Others fail to engage.
• The Lighter Side. OK, fine, you try explaining AI to the public.

Code Interpreter

Code Interpreter now available to all GPT-4 users.

Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

Eric Drexler looks back after four years on his ‘Reframing Superintelligence.’ He says that the old post is a good fit for today’s LLM-based technologies. I came away unconvinced. In particular I believe the updates regarding agency here are not sufficient. Most of the other disagreements present reflect the same disagreements from four years ago remaining unresolved.

People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone