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Newsom Vetoes SB 1047
Leksu73

If we cannot do compute governance, and we cannot do model-level governance, then I do not see an alternative solution. I only see bad options, a choice between an EU-style regime and doing essentially nothing.

It feels like this and some other parts of the post implies the EU AI Act does not apply compute governance and model-level governance, which seems false as far as I can tell (semantics?)

From a summary of the act: "All providers of GPAI models that present a systemic risk* – open or closed – must also conduct model evaluations, adversarial testing, t... (read more)

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Altman firing retaliation incoming?
Leksu50

To the extent that Microsoft pressures the OpenAI board about their decision to oust Altman, won't it be easy to (I think accurately) portray Microsoft's behavior as unreasonable and against the common good?

It seems like the main (I would guess accurate) narrative in the media is that the reason for the board's actions was safety concerns.

Let's say Microsoft pulls whatever investments they can, revokes access to cloud compute resources, and makes efforts to support a pro-Altman faction in OpenAI. What happens if the OpenAI board decides to stall and put ou... (read more)

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2the gears to ascension
what would this change? is there any lack in people being outspoken about framing these organizations as against the common good? it seems to me that this is simply the old conflict between capital and commoner.
7Lukas_Gloor
So far, a lot of the media coverage has framed the issue so the board comes across as inexperienced and their mission-related concerns come across more like an overreaction rather than reasonable criticism of profit-oriented or PR-oriented company decisions putting safety at risk when building the most dangerous technology. I suspect that this is mostly a function of how things went down, how these differences of vision between them and Altman came into focus, rather than an a feature of the current discourse window – we've seen that media coverage about AI risk concerns (and public reaction to it) isn't always negative. So, I think you're right that there are alternative circumstances where it would look quite problematic for Microsoft if they try to interfere with or circumvent the non-profit board structure. Unfortunately, it might be a bit late to change the framing now.  But there's still the chance that the board is sitting on more info and struggled to coordinate their communications amidst all the turmoil so far, or have other reasons for not explaining their side of things in a more compelling manner. (My comment is operating under the assumption that it's indeed true that Altman isn't the sort of cautious good leader that one would want for the whole AI thing to go well. I personally think this might well be the case, but I want to flag that my views here aren't very resilient because I have little info, and also I'm acknowledging that seeing outpouring of support for him is at least moderate evidence of him being a good leader [but one should also be careful about not overupdating on this type of evidence of someone being well-liked in a professional network]. And by "good leader" I don't just mean "can make money for companies" – Elon Musk is also good at making money for companies, but I'm not sure people would come to his support in the same way they came to Altman's support, for instance. Also, I think "being a good leader" is way more important th
AI Alignment Breakthroughs this Week [new substack]
Leksu40

Agree that would be better. I think just links is useful too though, in case adding more context significantly increases the workload in practice

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Atoms to Agents Proto-Lectures
Leksu10

I wonder if there's an AI tool that could post-process it

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1MiguelDev
There are some tools that can be used to enhance audio from100% to 200%. via video editing softwares.
Linkpost: We need another Expert Survey on Progress in AI, urgently
Leksu10

Is there a group currently working on such a survey? If not, seems like it wouldn't be very hard to kickstart.

Link to mentioned survey: LINK

Maybe someone from AI Impacts could comment relevant thoughts (are they planning to do a re-run of the survey soon, would they encourage/discourage another group to do a similar survey, do they think now is a good time, do they have the right resources for it now, etc)

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AGI safety career advice
Leksu30

Thanks, I think this comment and the subsequent post will be very useful for me!

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Possible miracles
Leksu20

Here's what GPT-3 output for me

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2Quintin Pope
It's distribution over continuations for the sentence itself is broader: I'd have expected it to become less confident of its answer when asked verbally.