This post is a follow-up to The Plan - 2023 Version. There's also The Plan - 2022 Update and The Plan, but the 2023 version contains everything you need to know about the current Plan. Also see this comment and this comment on how my plans interact with the labs and other players, if you’re curious about that part.

What Have You Been Up To This Past Year?

Our big thing at the end of 2023 was Natural Latents. Prior to natural latents, the biggest problem with my math on natural abstraction was that it didn’t handle approximation well. Natural latents basically solved that problem. With that theoretical barrier out of the way, it was time to focus on crossing the theory-practice gap. Ultimately, that means building a product to get feedback from users on how well our theory works in practice, providing an empirical engine for iterative improvement [...]

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(00:26) What Have You Been Up To This Past Year?

(03:59) Why The Focus On Image Generators Rather Than LLMs?

(04:53) Any Major Changes To The Plan In The Past Year?

(06:15) Do We Have Enough Time?

The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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