Super alignment before super intelligence

Hello folks, here’s what we have today;

Our picks

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OpenAI are jumping back on the alignment bandwagon with the brilliantly-named Superalignment Team. And you guessed it - they’re researching alignment of future superintelligent AIs. They reckon that AI can align other AI faster than humans can, and the plan is to build an AI that does just that. Head-spinning stuff…

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Playground, the fast-moving image AI start-up, has just raised $40m to set the bar for improving graphics with AI. They think that image AI is seriously lacking language models, and they plan to get it up to speed. They’ll be building a state-of-the-art AI graphics editor, and primarily working towards models that can understand and handle pixels in images. Think DragGAN but better.

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ChatGPT has just been hit with its first serious lawsuit, and this time the accusers aren’t the usual visual artists, but writers. These two authors claim that OpenAI has breached copyright by including their books in its training set. Their evidence: ChatGPT can accurately summarise their books. Seems like a shaky argument to me…

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From the network

• Sarah Guo is hiring an early career investor/analyst for Conviction Capital.

• Conviction Communities is holding an AI builders meetup on 10th July in SF. RSVP here. 

• What should the UK’s £100 million Foundation Model Taskforce do? A proposal by Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic.

Ben’s Bites News top posts from the last 24 hours

• Shopify’s CEO builds a simple webchat interface for the llama.cpp repo.

• KokoMind: Can LLMs understand social interactions?

• Grammy CEO says that music containing AI-created elements is eligible for a Grammy, but the AI portion will not be considered.

• LangChain short course: Chat with your data.

• In the age of AI, tech’s little guys need big friends.

• LongNet - Scaling transformers to 1,000,000,000 tokens.

• TMLR outstanding paper committee awards the first outstanding certification to “A Generalist Agent.”

• NYC law on AI use in hiring goes into effect.

• Has generative AI hype peaked?

• Synthetic data makes models stupid - Deep Dive on Anthropic CEO’s comment.

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