Weekly AI Review in 7 Keys (22/05/23)

1 essay (Meta open-source AI approach), 1 paper (Tree of Thoughts), 1 tool (ChatGPT iOS), 1 topic (Sam Altman Senate hearing), 1 tweet (LeCun vs everyone), 1 quote (ChatGPT paywall?), 1 curiosity (Ethical hacking with AI)

Alberto Romero
3 min readMay 22, 2023
Midjourney

Essay

In Battle Over A.I., Meta Decides to Give Away Its Crown Jewels

In contrast to OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, etc. Meta continues a hardcore open-source approach to AI. This is good for developers. Is it good for the world?

“The growing secrecy at Google and OpenAI is a ‘huge mistake,’ Dr. LeCun said, and a ‘really bad take on what is happening.’ He argues that consumers and governments will refuse to embrace A.I. unless it is outside the control of companies like Google and Meta. ‘Do you want every A.I. system to be under the control of a couple of powerful American companies?’ he asked.”

Paper

Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models

Tree of Thoughts is an improvement over the popular prompt engineering paradigm Chain of Thought where you guide a language model (e.g., ChatGPT) through a given task by asking for…

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