The Nonlinear Library LW - AI #55: Keep Clauding Along by Zvi
Mar 14, 2024
01:46:42
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 #55: Keep Clauding Along, published by Zvi on March 14, 2024 on LessWrong.
Things were busy once again, partly from the Claude release but from many other sides as well. So even after cutting out both the AI coding agent Devin and the Gladstone Report along with previously covering OpenAI's board expansion and investigative report, this is still one of the longest weekly posts.
In addition to Claude and Devin, we got among other things Command-R, Inflection 2.5, OpenAI's humanoid robot partnership reporting back after only 13 days and Google DeepMind with an embodied cross-domain video game agent. You can definitely feel the acceleration.
The backlog expands. Once again, I say to myself, I will have to up my reporting thresholds and make some cuts. Wish me luck.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Table of Contents.
Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Write your new legal code. Wait, what?
Claude 3 Offers Mundane Utility. A free prompt library and more.
Prompt Attention. If you dislike your prompt you can change your prompt.
Clauding Along. Haiku available, Arena leaderboard, many impressive examples.
Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility. Don't be left behind.
Copyright Confrontation. Some changes need to be made, so far no luck.
Fun With Image Generation. Please provide a character reference.
They Took Our Jobs. Some versus all.
Get Involved. EU AI office, great idea if you don't really need to be paid.
Introducing. Command-R, Oracle OpenSearch 2.11, various embodied agents.
Infection 2.5. They say it is new and improved. They seemingly remain invisible.
Paul Christiano Joins NIST. Great addition. Some try to stir up trouble.
In Other AI News. And that's not all.
Quiet Speculations. Seems like no one has a clue.
The Quest for Sane Regulation. EU AI Act passes, WH asks for funding.
The Week in Audio. Andreessen talks to Cowen.
Rhetorical Innovation. All of this has happened before, and will happen again.
A Failed Attempt at Adversarial Collaboration. Minds did not change.
Spy Versus Spy. Things are not going great on the cybersecurity front.
Shouting Into the Void. A rich man's blog post, like his Coke, is identical to yours.
Open Model Weights are Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This. Mistral closes shop.
Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult. Stealing part of a model.
People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone. They are hard to fully oversee.
Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone. We get letters.
The Lighter Side. Say the line.
There will be a future post on The Gladstone Report, but the whole thing is 285 pages and this week has been crazy, so I am pushing that until I can give it proper attention.
I am also holding off on covering Devin, a new AI coding agent. Reports are that it is extremely promising, and I hope to have a post out on that soon.
Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
Here is a seemingly useful script to dump a github repo into a file, so you can paste it into Claude or Gemini-1.5, which can now likely fit it all into their context window, so you can then do whatever you like.
Ask for a well-reasoned response to an article, from an opposing point of view.
Write your Amazon listing, 100k selling partners have done this. Niche product, but a hell of a niche.
Tell you how urgent you actually think something is, from 1 to 10. This is highly valuable. Remember: You'd pay to know what you really think.
Translate thousands of pages of European Union law into Albanian (shqip) and integrate them into existing legal structures. Wait, what?
Sophia: In the OpenAI blog post they mentioned "Albania using OpenAI tools to speed up its EU accession" but I didn't realize how insane this was - they are apparently going to rewrite old laws wholesale with GPT-4 to align with EU rules.
Look I am very pro-LLM but for the love ...
Things were busy once again, partly from the Claude release but from many other sides as well. So even after cutting out both the AI coding agent Devin and the Gladstone Report along with previously covering OpenAI's board expansion and investigative report, this is still one of the longest weekly posts.
In addition to Claude and Devin, we got among other things Command-R, Inflection 2.5, OpenAI's humanoid robot partnership reporting back after only 13 days and Google DeepMind with an embodied cross-domain video game agent. You can definitely feel the acceleration.
The backlog expands. Once again, I say to myself, I will have to up my reporting thresholds and make some cuts. Wish me luck.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Table of Contents.
Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Write your new legal code. Wait, what?
Claude 3 Offers Mundane Utility. A free prompt library and more.
Prompt Attention. If you dislike your prompt you can change your prompt.
Clauding Along. Haiku available, Arena leaderboard, many impressive examples.
Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility. Don't be left behind.
Copyright Confrontation. Some changes need to be made, so far no luck.
Fun With Image Generation. Please provide a character reference.
They Took Our Jobs. Some versus all.
Get Involved. EU AI office, great idea if you don't really need to be paid.
Introducing. Command-R, Oracle OpenSearch 2.11, various embodied agents.
Infection 2.5. They say it is new and improved. They seemingly remain invisible.
Paul Christiano Joins NIST. Great addition. Some try to stir up trouble.
In Other AI News. And that's not all.
Quiet Speculations. Seems like no one has a clue.
The Quest for Sane Regulation. EU AI Act passes, WH asks for funding.
The Week in Audio. Andreessen talks to Cowen.
Rhetorical Innovation. All of this has happened before, and will happen again.
A Failed Attempt at Adversarial Collaboration. Minds did not change.
Spy Versus Spy. Things are not going great on the cybersecurity front.
Shouting Into the Void. A rich man's blog post, like his Coke, is identical to yours.
Open Model Weights are Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This. Mistral closes shop.
Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult. Stealing part of a model.
People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone. They are hard to fully oversee.
Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone. We get letters.
The Lighter Side. Say the line.
There will be a future post on The Gladstone Report, but the whole thing is 285 pages and this week has been crazy, so I am pushing that until I can give it proper attention.
I am also holding off on covering Devin, a new AI coding agent. Reports are that it is extremely promising, and I hope to have a post out on that soon.
Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
Here is a seemingly useful script to dump a github repo into a file, so you can paste it into Claude or Gemini-1.5, which can now likely fit it all into their context window, so you can then do whatever you like.
Ask for a well-reasoned response to an article, from an opposing point of view.
Write your Amazon listing, 100k selling partners have done this. Niche product, but a hell of a niche.
Tell you how urgent you actually think something is, from 1 to 10. This is highly valuable. Remember: You'd pay to know what you really think.
Translate thousands of pages of European Union law into Albanian (shqip) and integrate them into existing legal structures. Wait, what?
Sophia: In the OpenAI blog post they mentioned "Albania using OpenAI tools to speed up its EU accession" but I didn't realize how insane this was - they are apparently going to rewrite old laws wholesale with GPT-4 to align with EU rules.
Look I am very pro-LLM but for the love ...