Weekly Top Picks #90
OpenAI making enemies / AI writing on Substack / China vs the US / Superhuman AI music / David Mayer mystery / Karpathy's dunk on LLMs
The week in AI at a glance
OpenAI is making enemies even among its friends
AI writing on Substack: What’s acceptable and what isn’t?
Chinese open-source AI is catching up to OpenAI
AI models are entering their superhuman phase: music edition
A new mystery: Ask ChatGPT to say “David Mayer”
Ex-OpenAI Andrej Karpathy saying the quiet part out loud
The week in The Algorithmic Bridge
(PAID) Weekly Top Picks #89: State of Gen AI 2024 / LLMs approximate retrieval / DeepSeek vs OpenAI / OpenAI vs Google / Do humans prefer AI art and poetry?
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