On the last episode of the Towards Data Science Podcast, host Jeremie Harris offers his perspective on the last two years of AI progress, and what he thinks it means for everything, from AI safety to the future of humanity. Going forward, Jeremie will be exploring these topics on the new Gladstone AI podcast.

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Intro music:

- Artist: Ron Gelinas

- Track Title: Daybreak Chill Blend (original mix)

- Link to Track: https://youtu.be/d8Y2sKIgFWc

Chapters:

• 0:00 Intro
• 6:00 The Bitter Lesson
• 10:00 The introduction of GPT-3
• 16:45 AI catastrophic risk (paper clip example)
• 23:00 Reward hacking
• 27:30 Approaching intelligence
• 32:00 Wrap-up

Links

- The new Gladstone AI podcast, where I’ll be talking about one new, cutting-edge AI model each week in plain English (its use cases, its potential malicious applications, and its relevance to AI alignment risk).

- 80,000 Hours: a website where you can get advice on how to contribute to solving AI safety and AI policy problems.

- Concrete Problems in AI Safety: an oldie but a goodie, that introduces a lot of the central problems in AI alignment that remain open to this day.