(2024-05-23) ZviM AI #65 I Spy With My AI

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #65: I Spy With My AI.

Table of Contents

• Introduction.
• Table of Contents.
• Language Models (LLM) Offer Mundane Utility. People getting used to practical stuff.
• Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. Google Search, Copilot ads.
• OpenAI versus Google. Similar new offerings. Who presented it better? OpenAI.
• GPT-4o My. Still fast and cheap, otherwise people are less impressed so far.
• Responsible Scaling Policies. Anthropic offers an update on their thinking.
• Copyright Confrontation. Sony joins the action, AI-funded lawyers write columns.
• Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. How bad will it get?
• They Took Our Jobs. If these are the last years of work, leave it all on the field.
• Get Involved. UK AI Safety Institute is hiring and offering fast grants.
• Introducing. Claude use tool, Google Maps AI features.
• Reddit and Weep. They signed with OpenAI. Curiously quiet reaction from users.
• In Other AI News. Newscorp also signs with OpenAI, we can disable TSMC. (ASML and TSMC have a kill switch for their chip manufacturing machines, for use if China invades Taiwan.)
• I Spy With My AI. Who wouldn’t want their computer recording everything? (Windows Recall)
• Quiet Speculations. How long will current trends hold up?
• Politico is at it Again. Framing the debate as if all safety is completely irrelevant.
• Beating China. A little something from the Schumer report on immigration.
• The Quest for Sane Regulation. UK’s Labour is in on AI frontier model regulation.
• SB 1047 Update. Passes California Senate, Weiner offers open letter.
• That’s Not a Good Idea. Some other proposals out there are really quite bad.
• The Week in Audio. Dwarkesh as a guest, me on Cognitive Revolution.
• Rhetorical Innovation. Some elegant encapsulations.
• The Lighter Side. It’s good, actually. Read it now.*