Taking Jaggedness Seriously - by Helen Toner - Rising Tide
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Why we should expect AI capabilities to keep being extremely uneven, and why that matters
This post is a transcript of a talk I gave at The Curve, a fantastic conference held in Berkeley in early October. The video (26 min talk plus 25 min Q&A) is below or at this link. (If you’re reading this in your email inbox, Substack tells me that the transcript will get cut off, so if you want to avoid that, click the title above to read online. There’s also one gif that may or may not display well in your email.) A substance note: I wrote this talk with The Curve audience in mind, which skews toward thinking AI might get very powerful quite soon. I suspect the broader audience reading…
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