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mjg2 5 hours ago

Would it kill these OpenAI guys to learn how to write a white paper? Google's DeepMind did better with their AGI to ASI, though I have qualms on their execution.

Whenever I see these Frontier Labs "publish a paper" on ArXiv.org the phrase Esse Quam Videri strides past my mind—is this genuine progress or merely a marketing metric for their stakeholders?

malshe 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

you are complaining about a problem with this paper without explaining what it is.

mjg2 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When I say “how” I mean like how u/glouwbug mentioned: Formatting. But more so Structure.

When I read artifacts by Frontier Labs I notice a trend towards deteriorating lexicographic architecture. Like how a textbook or larger tomb is constructed for the reader to navigate.

Instead, now I see continuous monotonic text. It’s as if the author expects us to chuck the artifact into an LLM in order for it to inform us of meaning.

alansaber 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Single column PDF. This is the frontier.

StrauXX 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I find single column much easier to read than dual. Though the line spacing is too much in this concrete example.

jcims 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Granted I didn't comb over it but to me the big issue was that it was just a big data dump without any material attempt at meaningful analysis.

That and all the figures were at the bottom which was kind of annoying.

briHass 12 minutes ago | parent [-]

The figures down 80 scrolls towards the bottom is what bothered me also.

Most of the time with studies, the figures are where you should go first. It's not uncommon to find cases where the text makes claims that the numbers don't support. It also, pre AI era, took at least some extra effort to make data visualizations, so the authors would focus on visualizing the most useful/impactful/interesting data sets.

glouwbug 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Likely just formatting

paxys 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Making valid complaints would require actually reading it.

esafak 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a typical working paper (preprint) not white paper, for its field. You can wait for the journal publication.