Weekly Top Picks #56

Jeff Bezos on LLMs / AI math discovery / Digi app / OpenAI superalignment paper / Schmidhuber against the godfathers / Rethinking AI benchmarks / Microsoft's Phi-2 / Tesla Optimus 2 / OpenAI surprises

The week at a glance

• Jeff Bezos about LLMs: They’re not inventions but discoveries

• Google DeepMind paper: Mathematical discoveries with LLMs + search

• The AI romantic companion future some people are building is dreadful

• OpenAI superalignment paper: Can small AIs control large AIs?

• Jürgen Schmidhuber against Hinton, Bengio, and LeCun

• Dressing up AI models’ benchmark performance is too easy

• Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models

• Tesla Optimus second gen: AI is beginning to master the world of atoms

• Weekly rumor: OpenAI Dec surprise and a bigger surprise about GPT-6