Category: Artificial Intelligence

Should we halt progress in AI? Reflections on our interview with Zvi Mowshowitz

We sat down with Zvi Mowshowitz, a CEO, rationalist, and professional trader, to talk about his analysis of the Future of Life Institute's open letter to halt AI progress.

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Ep. 132: The era of personalized AI is here | Suman Kanuganti

Suman Kanuganti is the co-founder and CEO at Personal.ai, a company that is reinventing human-to-human messaging by leveraging AI that helps people collaborate, exchange ideas, and deepen their relationships with others.

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This Week in AI (04/28/2023)

The AI update for April 28th, 2023 features emergence in LLMs, the implications of AI Drake songs going viral, lessons from the history of AI, and more.

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This Week in AI (04/21/2023)

The AI update for April 21st, 2023 features cognitive emulations, Sam Altman on the limits of scaling, Google and DeepMind teaming up, and Eliezer ditching alignment research for...catgirls?

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Ep. 130: Should we halt progress in AI? | Zvi Mowshowitz

Zvi is a rationalist, former trader, and past CEO of MetaMed. He recently penned an analysis of the Future of Life Institute's proposal for a 6-month moratorium on AI research, and that's what we talked to him about.

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This Week in AI (04/14/2023)

The AI update for April 7th, 2023 features a number of approaches for inspecting LLMs internal functioning, skepticism over AI doom scenarios, and China and the U.S. considering regulations on generative AI

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Ep. 129: Applying the 'security mindset' to AI and x-risk | Jeffrey Ladish

Jeffrey Ladish runs a security company called Gordian Research which provides operational security consulting services. He joins Trent to talk about the moratorium on AI research and the risks inherent in powerful cognitive technologies.

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This Week in AI (04/07/2023)

The AI update for April 7th, 2023 features more calls to slow AI progress, a conversation with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AI Safety, Germany considering a ban on ChatGPT, and self-healing software.

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Ep. 128: Silicon Valley Bank, the Balajis bet, price theory, AI | Thomas and Trent

Thomas and Trent do a news round up, covering the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Balajis' bet on Bitcoin, finance and price theory, and (of course) AI.

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