
EP39: White House AI Executive Order, The Bletchley Declaration & Adversarial AI Attacks
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This week the AI guys unpack the White House's sweeping executive order on regulating AI - will this lead to the death of open-source models? They also discuss the vague and fluffy Bletchley Declaration signed by world leaders, why Geoffrey Hinton just won't stop fearmongering, and introduce some hilarious new merch including a life-size shower curtain! Tune in for hot takes on the AI ethics debate, prompt engineering tricks, and key insights on the future of language models.
CHAPTERS:
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00:00 - King Charles on AI (Cold Open)
00:20 - Thoughts on White House AI Executive Order
23:09 - The Bletchley Declaration & AI Safety Summit
38:04 - LoRA Fine-tuning Efficiently Undoes Safety Training in Llama 2 & They Killed Tay!
48:34 - Adversarial Attacks and Defenses in Large Language Models: Old and New Threats Paper
51:51 - Mike proposes What The Future of AI Computing Might Look Like
55:00 - Leaked: The Secret Prompt Powering ChatGPT's New Multi-Tool Mode (and How to Hack It)
1:01:39 - Anthropic Have Raised More Billions & Our Merch Store!
SOURCES:
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/what-the-executive-order-means-for
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-safety-summit-2023-the-bletchley-declaration/the-bletchley-declaration-by-countries-attending-the-ai-safety-summit-1-2-november-2023
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-and-demis-hassabis-just-want-to-control-ai-2023-10
https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1718263147591573949?s=20
https://twitter.com/ldjconfirmed/status/1718456393026490523
Leaked Prompt: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/main/_system-prompts/all_tools.md
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/27/google-commits-to-invest-2-billion-in-openai-competitor-anthropic.html
PAPERS:
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.17688.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.20624.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.19737v1.pdf
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