Reading Notes 1

Gains and perils of neural networks

• Roscoe, Jules. 2024. “A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine.” Vice (blog), January 17, 2024.
• Bastian, Matthias. 2024. “Deepmind’s AlphaGeometry Solves Complex Math and Is a ‘Crucial Step’ toward AGI.” THE DECODER, January 17, 2024.

Optional Original Technical Articles

Original articles that have inspired the blog articles above are optional:

• Thompson, Brian, Mehak Preet Dhaliwal, Peter Frisch, Tobias Domhan, and Marcello Federico. 2024. A Shocking Amount of the Web Is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism. arXiv, January 11, 2024. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.05749.
• Trinh, T.H., Wu, Y., Le, Q.V. et al. 2024. Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations. Nature 625, 476–482. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06747-5