Alignment Newsletter #158: Should we be optimistic about generalization?

Update: 2021-07-29

Description

Recorded by Robert Miles: http://robertskmiles.com

More information about the newsletter here: https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGGFXwKpr-TJ5HfxEFaFCg

Comments

In Channel

Alignment Newsletter #173: Recent language model results from DeepMind

2022-07-2116:43

Alignment Newsletter #172: Sorry for the long hiatus!

2022-07-0505:52

Alignment Newsletter #171: Disagreements between alignment "optimists" and "pessimists"

2022-01-2314:21

Alignment Newsletter #170: Analyzing the argument for risk from power-seeking AI

2021-12-0813:01

Alignment Newsletter #169: Collaborating with humans without human data

2021-11-2415:08

Alignment Newsletter #168: Four technical topics for which Open Phil is soliciting grant proposals

2021-10-2816:21

Alignment Newsletter #167: Concrete ML safety problems and their relevance to x-risk

2021-10-2017:10

Alignment Newsletter #166: Is it crazy to claim we're in the most important century?

2021-10-0815:42

Alignment Newsletter #165: When large models are more likely to lie

2021-09-2216:05

Alignment Newsletter #164: How well can language models write code?

2021-09-1518:40

Alignment Newsletter #163: Using finite factored sets for causal and temporal inference

2021-09-0819:27

Alignment Newsletter #162: Foundation models: a paradigm shift within AI

2021-08-2715:46

Alignment Newsletter #161: Creating generalizable reward functions for multiple tasks by learning a model of functional similarity

2021-08-2017:38

Alignment Newsletter #160: Building AIs that learn and think like people

2021-08-1317:26

Alignment Newsletter #159: Building agents that know how to experiment, by training on procedurally generated games