(2024-10-31) Zvim Ai88 Thanks For The Memos

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #88: Thanks for the Memos. Following up on the Biden Executive Order on AI, the White House has now issued an extensive memo outlining its AI strategy. The main focus is on government adaptation and encouraging innovation and competitiveness, but there’s also sections on safety and international governance.

We also have word of a new draft AI regulatory bill out of Texas, along with similar bills moving forward in several other states. It’s a bad bill, sir. It focuses on use cases

Table of Contents

• Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Get your own agent running.
• Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. Again, not if you don’t use them.
• In Summary. Why read the whole thing when you can read the summary?
• Master of Orion. Altman dismisses December OpenAI model release as fake news.
• Whispers in the Night. AI transcription of medical records, with hallucinations.
• Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. No, you hang up. No, you hang up.
• Overcoming Bias. Feature steering mostly preserves accuracy, up to a point.
• They Took Our Jobs. Which jobs will they be allowed to take?
• The Art of the Jailbreak. Don’t jailbreak, just steer us through mythic space.
• Get Involved. Apollo Research position on the EU AI Act.
• Introducing. Perplexity features, Sonnet in GitHub Copilot, prompting essentials.
• In Other AI News. We have the chips, also the voice modes.
• Quiet Speculations. AI is going to be a huge deal.
• Thanks for the Memos: Introduction and Competitiveness. White House memo.
• Thanks for the Memos: Safety. It’s not where we’d like, but it’s there at all.
• Thanks for the Memos: International Governance. Democratic values.
• EU AI Act in Practice. The regulatory burdens, in all the wrong places.
• Texas Messes With You. EU style AI regulation might be coming to Texas? Oh no.
• The Quest for Sane Regulations. Thomas Friedman is more AGI pilled than I am?
• The Week in Audio. We need to stop hiring those $2,000/hr paralegals.
• Rhetorical Innovation. What matters is what they hear, and what they then do.
• Roon Speaks. And that’s just him being humble and reasonable.
• The Mask Comes Off. OpenAI disbands its AGI readiness team.
• The Lighter Side. The more you know.

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