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#170 - new Sora rival, OpenAI robotics, understanding GPT4, AGI by 2027?

Jun 9, 2024
Discussion on Sora's AI video generator rival, OpenAI's robotics research restart, UAE's AI deals with the US, Zoox testing self-driving cars, and AI collaborations between tech giants
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  • OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group, indicating a focus on advancing AI applications in robotics.
  • Saudi fund invests in China's effort to develop a rival to OpenAI, highlighting the global competition in AI research and development.

Deep dives

OpenAI Explores Sparse Autoencoders for Concept Extraction from GPT-4

OpenAI released a research paper and blog post on Scaling and Evaluating Sparse Auto-Encoders, aiming to extract concepts from GPT-4. They trained a sparse autoencoder to compress GPT-4 outputs to find 16 million features related to human imperfection, questions, and more. The research includes code for training and interactive feature visualizations.

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