Four Major AI Advancements In One Week! New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models – essentially everyone has been training large language models with a deeply suboptimal use of compute Googles Pathways Language Model explains jokes, and it can distinguish cause and effect and understand counterfactuals DALL-E 2 makes amazing art on demand Socratic Modeling system 1:39:51  LW posts Also mentioned: Overcoming Bias: AI Language Progress What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like Github Copilot Anthropic AI The Mind Killer Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Also merch! Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Argument Screens Off Authority Hug the Query (edit: misspellings is how we prove we aren’t AIs :P)