
Six Month Pause on AI More Powerful Than GPT-4, ChatGPT Plugins, GPT-4 Development, GPT-4 AGI? | E08
About this episode
Your two favorite luddites are back in Episode 8 of "This Week in AI" podcast. In this episode we cover the FutueOfLife.org Open Letter Asking for a Six Month Pause on AI More Powerful Than GPT-4, Talk About Implementing GPT-4 and It's Limitations, Cover Eliezer Yudkowsky's Doom Predictions in a TIME article, Discuss the Implications of ChatGPT Plugins, MisInformation and A Whole Lot More.
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00:00 - Powerful AI is GONNA KILL US ALL!?
00:16 - Six Month Pause on AI? FutureOfLife.org Open Letter
08:35 - Will They Take AI Models Away From Us?
12:30 - Implementing GPT-4 and Limitations of GPT-4 Access
18:07 - Eliezer Yudkowsky Says We're All Gonna Die From Powerful AI!
21:05 - How Will They Legislate AI if They Don't Understand TikTok?
22:06 - Is AI Development as Big as Nuclear Weapons?
23:40 - ChatGPT Plugins: One App To Rule Them All?
32:06 - ChatGPT IS The Killer App: Vector Database (Memory) & Embeddings
39:08 - GPT-4 Can Visualize Images From Imagining Them!
42:59 - Misinformation & Midjourney Access Stopped Due to Deep Fakes
44:45 - ChatGPT Plugins Hacked & DAN Plugin
47:06 - Disrupting OpenAI GPT-4 with Open Source Models
49:24 - Our Dear Friend Simon Willison: LLaMA 7B Model
51:46 - Large Language Models LLMs May Destroy Humanity
52:09 - Do We Know How to Fully Utilize GPT-4?
56:00 - Gambling with AI Update
1:00:21 - Sam Altman Lex Friedman Interview
1:03:00 - We Have #FREESYDNEY Mugs to Give Away!
SOURCES:
- https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/
- https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
- https://twitter.com/billackman/status/1641531788173385729?s=46&t=uXHUN4Glah4CaV-g2czc6Q
- https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins
- https://twitter.com/rez0__/status/1639259413553750021?s=20
- https://twitter.com/hwchase17/status/1640171938470563840?s=20
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/sparks-of-artificial-general-intelligence-early-experiments-with-gpt-4/
- https://blog.lastmileai.dev/using-openais-retrieval-plugin-with-llama-d2e0b6732f14
- https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1640042620666920960?s=46&t=uXHUN4Glah4CaV-g2czc6Q
- https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1636756272631681024?s=46&t=uXHUN4Glah4CaV-g2czc6Q
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