Weekly Top Picks #44

Gemini vs GPT-4 / The jagged AI frontier / New AI art trend / Creativity: humans>AI / AI reasoning / LMs as optimizers / Europe on AI x-risk / Altman interview / ChatGPT in the US? / Schumer's meeting

This week at a glance

• OpenAI vs. Google to release the first strong multimodal language model

• AI’s impact on how we work: Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier.

• How to do the new viral Stable Diffusion + ControlNet trend in AI art.

• Best humans still outperform AI in a creative divergent thinking task.

• Why was GPT invented in the US and not in China?

• Can Large Language Models Reason? Somewhat, but not there yet.

• LLMs as optimizers: LMs are better than humans at prompting LMs

• Europe’s commitment to handling AI risk

• Azeem Azhar interview with Sam Altman

• Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites