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Gergely Orosz comments on Lilian Weng leaving Thinking Machines to return to OpenAI, noting the misleading narrative.
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, stepped down citing health issues and then rejoined OpenAI to lead a team focused on recursive self-improvement research.
Lilian Weng announces leaving Thinking Machines, focusing on health. She has been dedicated to making cutting-edge AI topics easy to understand.
Lilian Weng's blog post argues that recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI will be realized through refining the design and optimization of the 'harness' (the system surrounding the model), and highlights research examples from Sakana AI.
Niels Rogge added Lilian Weng's blog on scaling laws as a recommended read on Papers with Code, linking to the original paper and citations.
Lilian Weng's blog post provides a comprehensive overview of scaling laws in deep learning, covering their derivation, compute-optimal allocation, and the debate between Kaplan et al. and Chinchilla.
A user credits Lilian Weng's blog on beta-VAE for their entire ML career, while another praises her technical blog Lil'Log as highly influential in AI engineering.
Introducing AI figure Lilian Weng, a Peking University graduate with a PhD from Indiana University. Her technical blog Lil'Log has a massive influence in the AI engineering community and is hailed as one of the bibles for AI engineers.