muckrAIkers

By: Jacob Haimes and Igor Krawczuk
  • Summary

  • Join us as we dig a tiny bit deeper into the hype surrounding "AI" press releases, research papers, and more. Each episode, we'll highlight ongoing research and investigations, providing some much needed contextualization, constructive critique, and even a smidge of occasional good will teasing to the conversation, trying to find the meaning under all of this muck.
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Episodes
  • SB1047
    Sep 30 2024

    Why is Mark Ruffalo talking about SB1047, and what is it anyway? Tune in for our thoughts on the now vetoed California legislation that had Big Tech scared.

    • (00:00) - Intro
    • (00:31) - Updates from a relatively slow week
    • (03:32) - Disclaimer: SB1047 vetoed during recording (still worth a listen)
    • (05:24) - What is SB1047
    • (12:30) - Definitions
    • (17:18) - Understanding the bill
    • (28:42) - What are the players saying about it?
    • (46:44) - Addressing critiques
    • (55:59) - Open Source
    • (01:02:36) - Takeaways
    • (01:15:40) - Clarification on impact to big tech
    • (01:18:51) - Outro

    Links
    • SB1047 legislation page
    • SB1047 CalMatters page
    • Newsom vetoes SB1047
    • CAIS newsletter on SB1047
    • Prominent AI nerd letter
    • Anthropic's letter
    • SB1047 ~explainer


    Additional SB1047 Related Coverage

    • Opposition to SB1047 'makes no sense'
    • Newsom on SB1047
    • Andreesen Horowitz on SB1047
    • Classy move by Dan
    • Ex-OpenAI employee says Altman doesn't want regulation


    Other Sources

    • o1 doesn't measure up in new benchmark paper
    • OpenAI losses and gains
    • OpenAI crypto hack
    • "Murati out" -Mira Murati, probably
    • Altman pitching datacenters to White House
    • Sam Altman, 'podcast bro'
    • Paper: Contract Design with Safety Inspections


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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • OpenAI's o1, aka. Strawberry
    Sep 23 2024

    OpenAI's new model is out, and we are going to have to rake through a lot of muck to get the value out of this one!

    ⚠ Opt out of LinkedIn's GenAI scraping ➡️ https://lnkd.in/epziUeTi

    • (00:00) - Intro
    • (00:25) - Other recent news
    • (02:57) - Hot off the press
    • (03:58) - Why might someone care?
    • (04:52) - What is it?
    • (06:49) - How is it being sold?
    • (10:45) - How do they explain it, technically?
    • (27:09) - Reflection AI Drama
    • (40:19) - Why do we care?
    • (46:39) - Scraping away the muck

    Note: at around 32 minutes, Igor says the incorrect Llama model version for the story he is telling. Jacob dubbed over those mistakes with the correct versioning.

    Links relating to o1

    • OpenAI blogpost
    • System card webpage
    • GitHub collection of o1 related media
    • AMA Twitter thread
    • Francois Chollet Tweet on reasoning and o1
    • The academic paper doing something very similar to o1

    Other stuff we mention

    • OpenAI's huge valuation hinges on upending corporate structure
    • Meta acknowledges it’s scraping all public posts for AI training
    • White House announces new private sector voluntary commitments to combat image-based sexual abuse
    • Sam Altman wants you to be grateful
    • The Zuck is done apologizing
    • IAPS report on technical safety research at AI companies
    • Llama2 70B is "about as good" as GPT-4 at summarization tasks
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    50 mins

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