Interpreting AI’s Acceleration (Robert Wright & Nora Belrose)

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:28 Nora’s work on AI alignment and interpretability 2:21 Is *a* singularity near? 9:52 Nora: AI may take my job within two years 14:56 The reason(ing) behind AI’s latest acceleration 24:14 Thinking through the “chain-of-thought” process 41:44 AI “thinking” vs human thinking 47:21 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nora Belrose (EleutherAI). Recorded February 18, 2024.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:27.4	Hi, Nora.
0:30.9	Hi, Bob.
0:32.1	How are you doing?
0:33.7	I'm doing all right.
0:35.3	How about you?
0:36.8	Okay, I'm actually increasing the volume of my microphone, so I may be coming through a little louder now.
0:41.2	But I'm doing fine.
0:42.5	Let me introduce this.
0:44.5	I'm Robert Wright, publisher of Non-Zero Newsletter.
0:47.0	This is the Non-Zero podcast.
0:48.5	You're Nora Bellrose, an AI researcher.
0:51.5	More specifically, your head of interpretability at E-L-E-U-T-H-E-R, head of
0:59.4	interpretability means you try to figure out what's going on inside these machines and how we
1:05.8	could change that if we want to, like how they represent concepts and how we might change their,
1:14.3	you know, temperament, attitude, behavior, whatever we want to do. In other words, this is part of
1:19.2	alignment research, as they say. And I'm really glad to be talking to you. We had a conversation
1:25.7	about a year ago or so on this podcast.
1:28.4	And a ton has happened since then.
1:31.3	In fact, the ton has happened in the last five minutes.
1:33.5	I mean, the field, it seems like things are moving really fast.
1:36.8	And that's one reason I wanted to talk to you about, you know, various aspects of this.
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