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“AI #75: Math is Easier” by Zvi

136 min • 1 augusti 2024

Google DeepMind got a silver metal at the IMO, only one point short of the gold. That's really exciting.

We continuously have people saying ‘AI progress is stalling, it's all a bubble’ and things like that, and I always find remarkable how little curiosity or patience such people are willing to exhibit. Meanwhile GPT-4o-Mini seems excellent, OpenAI is launching proper search integration, by far the best open weights model got released, we got an improved MidJourney 6.1, and that's all in the last two weeks. Whether or not GPT-5-level models get here in 2024, and whether or not it arrives on a given schedule, make no mistake. It's happening.

This week also had a lot of discourse and events around SB 1047 that I failed to avoid, resulting in not one but four sections devoted to it.

Dan Hendrycks was baselessly attacked – by billionaires with [...]

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Outline:

(02:12) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(03:06) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(04:18) Math is Easier

(08:15) Llama Llama Any Good

(11:52) Search for the GPT

(15:17) Tech Company Will Use Your Data to Train Its AIs

(17:14) Fun with Image Generation

(17:37) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon