Weekly Top Picks #59

AGI timelines / DeepMind leaking talent / Transformer vs diffusion / AI doom status seeking / Best Davos AI panel / DeepMind's AlphaGeometry / Altman's AI chip fab

The week at a glance

• When might AI outsmart us? It depends on who you ask

• Google DeepMind scientists in talks to leave and form AI startup

• Transformer models vs diffusion models

• AI doom fear as ‘subconscious status-seeking’

• Best Davos AI panel: The expanding universe of generative AI models

• AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry

• Altman seeks to raise billions for network of AI chip factories