Episode 6: Humanism Meets AI

Topics discussed in this episode include:

1. Latest AI News

   • Sam Altman visits Toronto on his world tour: https://open.substack.com/pub/stablediscussion/p/discussions-about-chatgpt-with-sam

   • Google I/O Announcements

     • PALM2: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-palm-2-ai-large-language-model/

   • Anthropic 100K context window: https://www.anthropic.com/index/100k-context-windows

   • Geoffry Hinton interfview: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/02/1072528/geoffrey-hinton-google-why-scared-ai/

   • Drag your GAN paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10973

   • Tree of Thoughts (ToT): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.10601.pdf

2. Ethics of AI

   1. What is the future like for artists and what do we think about rights and usage of AI tooling?

   2. What does the future of jobs look like and where should we be looking for people that may be losing the current way they work?

   3. Do we know what a good future looks like if it doesn’t look like the world we live in today?

   4. Geoffrey Hinton’s warnings about the potential future of AI
      

Misc References:

• Simulated Towns Research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442

• Fall by Neil Stevenson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell

• Sapiens (book): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind

• Lex Fridman Interview with Sam Altman: