Brave New AI World | Robert Wright & Jeffrey Ladish

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0:59 Why Jeffrey helped turn Meta’s Llama into Bad Llama
8:55 Bioweapons, hacking, and other AI dangers
19:39 How America unwittingly boosts China’s AI sector
28:37 The dark side of AI “alignment”
39:51 Is superintelligence the super-weapon of the future?
49:13 The perils of AI acceleration
Discussed in Overtime:
Can we no longer trust our eyes and ears?
Bob: AIs reverse-engineer the human mind (more or less)
Is AI progress slowing down?
China-phobia and non-zero-sum dynamics.
How AI could turbo-charge tyranny.
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Jeffrey Ladish (Palisade Research). Recorded June 19, 2024.
Twitter: / nonzeropods

[@Anders01]

I don't believe that Chinese companies need U.S. AI models. Instead I suspect the opposite situation where the Chinese tech industry is already ahead of the U.S. even in AI research and development. And also, it seems that Chinese companies compete fiercely among themselves but also cooperate! So that Huawei, Xiaomi, ByteDance, Tencent, Alibaba, BYD, DJI and Baidu etc form an integrated tech behemoth.

[@gingerhipster]

If only someone half a decade ago had an idea about some sort of new NGO-style organization that would have been able to set the stage for a viable pathway through this mess before it happened.

[@gingerhipster]

Find and interview a web/API developer and ask them what will happen once LLMs are successfully integrated into SaaS and Enterprise platforms at scale. Ask them what happens when a WordPress site becomes able to write its own code through a 1-click plugin install. Ask what else is like this. This one form of integration of AI is going to be responsible for cratering the middle class by the end of 2025.White collar jobs replaces by websites with subscription services. Digital labour solutions. The model is obvious.

[@DocDanTheGuitarMan]

What about the “good” actors? Like your government three letter agencies and the military?

[@remitemmos9165]

Like, can one like unlearn to like use "Like" in EVERY sentence? I wonder :)