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The blog post I look forward to most every year is Dan Wang’s annual letter. I’m spoiled because he always posts it on New Year’s Day. I curl up with my cappuccino, devour it like the serial novella release that it is, and the rest of the year’s internet writing goes downhill from there. Alright, of course there’s good content everywhere, all the time. But Dan is a unique combination of thoughtful and witty, timely yet evergreen. I wish more people wrote letters like he did. This is a homage to Dan’s annual letter, in hopes that he won’t stop writing them like he’s said that he might. I’ve been working in artificial general intelligence (more on what “general” means later) for just over a year. I lucked out, joining the field in what I’m sure everyone would agree has been an exceptional year. Let’s recap. Can you believe that all the following got published in 2022? OpenAI’s InstructGPT (that was this past January!) and ChatGPT (December), and DeepMind’s Sparrow (September) aligned lar

2022 letter | Zhengdong 2022 letter | Zhengdong Wang [home] | [all posts] 2022 letter 2022-12-28 23:29 GMT The blog post I look forward to most every year is Dan Wang’s annual letter . I’m spoiled because he always posts it on New Year’s Day. I curl up with my cappuccino, devour it like the serial novella release that it is, and the rest of the year’s internet writing goes downhill from there. Alright, of course there’s good content everywhere, all the time. But Dan is a unique combination of thoughtful and witty, timely yet evergreen. I wish more people wrote letters like he did. This is a ho

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