Apple sends a memo to the AGI faithful

Tom and Nate caught up last week (sorry for the editing delay) on the big two views of the AI future: Apple Intelligence and Situational Awareness (Nationalistic AI doom prevention). One of our best episodes, here are the links:* The Kekulé Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kekul%C3%A9_Problem* Truth and Method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Method* Situational Awareness https://situational-awareness.ai/00:00 A Hypothetical Life: From Germany to AGI01:20 Leopold Aschenbrenner: Situational Awareness and Extrapolation02:01 The Retort: Apple vs. Doomsday AI03:40 Credentials and Social Choice Theory05:14 Dissecting "Situational Awareness": Hype vs. Reality07:16 The Limits of Language Models: Are They Really Intelligent?11:04 Apple's Vision: AI for Consumers, Not Conquerors13:53 Silicon Valley Myopia and the Geopolitics of AI18:25 Beyond Benchmarks: The Scientist vs. The Engineer22:04 What is Intelligence? The Narrowness of Human Fixation24:32 A Growing Disrespect for Language?27:40 The Power of Talking to Language Models32:50 Language: Representation or Revelation?38:54 The Future of Meaning: Will AI Obliterate Art?45:32 A Vision for AI as Public Infrastructure