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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AI #31: It Can Do What Now?, published by Zvi on September 28, 2023 on LessWrong.
It slices. It dices. Or, at least, it sees, hears, talks, creates stunningly good images and browses the web. Welcome to the newly updated GPT-4. That's all in two weeks. Throw in Microsoft 365 Copilot finally coming online soon.
Are we back? I'm guessing we're back. Also it's that much closer to being all over. At some point this stops being a ying-yang thing and more of a we-all-die thing. For now, however? We're so back.
Are we so back that AGI has been achieved internally at OpenAI? Because Sam Altman literally said that straight up in a Reddit post? No, no, that was an obvious joke, we are not quite that back, why do you people have no chill?
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Table of Contents.
GPT-4 Real This Time. Two senses fully operational for GPT-4, plus 365 Copilot.
Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. What will you do with sight and sound?
Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility. Google search under siege.
The Reversal Curse. A is B. So is B A? Why would B be A?
Wouldn't You Prefer a Nice Game of Chess? It's in the evals. Tic-tac-toe isn't.
Fun With Image Generation. I see what you did there.
Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. Copyright and deepfakes are so confusing.
They Took Our Jobs. Writers strike a deal. How long will it protect them?
Get Involved. Cate Hall is ready for her move into AI safety advocacy. Where to?
Introducing. Whoop, there is another DeepMind diagnostic tool. Ho hum.
Talking Real Money. Anthropic raises $4 billion from Amazon.
In Other AI News. Microsoft goes nuclear. As in nuclear power plants.
Quiet Speculations. My AI says I'm right about economic growth.
The Quest for Sane Regulation. The UK shows signs of understanding.
The Week in Audio. Be careful what you wish for.
Rhetorical Innovation. It is not good news when your case gets easier to make.
Can You Please Speak Directly Into This Microphone. Nuclear proliferation. yay?
No One Would Be So Stupid As To. Say 'AGI has been achieved internally'?
Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult. Should it believe you?
People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone. Mitt Romney, Flo Crivello.
Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone. Trapped priors.
The Lighter Side. Why stop now?
GPT-4 Real This Time
Microsoft announces Windows Copilot, combining their various distinct copilots into one copilot. You still exist, so for now it will never be a full pilot. It promises to draw upon content across applications and devices, available to enterprise customers on November 1st. You can tag specific people and files for reference.
Rowan Cheung, never afraid to have his mind blown by news, is impressed.
It's hard to grasp how powerful it is until you see it in action. It deeply understands you, your job, your priorities, and your organization allowing you to talk with all your work in one spot. Some demo workflows they showed us:
Turn a word doc into a full powerpoint
Formulate Excel and turn data into graphics with insights
Turn a FAQ word doc into a Blog post with references Wild.
AI is going to entirely change the way we work, and this is just the start. For example, this new feature for Teams stood out to me:
They're integrating a "Following" feature, allowing you to follow a meeting and get an AI summary that you can chat with for further context.
You can even ask sentiment within a meeting e.g. "Did students find the joke the professor told at 7:10 funny?"
I kept thinking about my days in school during the lockdown, when no one would attend online Zoom class and just watched recorded lectures on 2x speed. It saved so much time. This new following feature feels like that era, on steroids.
Will anyone even show up to online classes or meetings anymore? Everyone will probably jus...
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