Nonzero | A New Kind of Artificial Intelligence | Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee @Nonzero | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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0:00 Why didn’t OpenAI call its new o1 AI GPT?
12:03 Tim’s first impressions of o1
16:06 What’s the secret to o1’s better reasoning?
26:57 Inspecting AI introspection
30:07 Does o1’s capability for deception bring us closer to doom?
35:35 AI doomers’ Hollywood problem
40:39 Elon’s self-driving speed bumps
46:49 Heading to Overtime

Discussed in Overtime:
The trouble with almost-autonomous vehicles.
Should you up your p(doom) in light of o1?
How much better can next-gen LLMs get?
The politics of California’s AI safety bill.
Elon’s brain, Bob’s AI book, and the billionaire conspiracist class.

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Timothy B. Lee (Full Stack Economics, Understanding AI). Recorded September 17, 2024.

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