Web Picks (week of 17 April 2023)

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In the past weeks: large language models continue to grow, with libraries to deploy “autonomous” agents being all the rage now. Meta releases SAM: a zero-shot computer vision model. And Twitter AI experts continue to debate whether and how AI is or will be dangerous, and how it should or should not be aligned, with the general media enjoying the new drama to be farmed for content.