Phi-1: A ’Textbook’ Model

After a conversation with one of the ’Textbooks Are All You Need’ authors, I can now bring you insights from the new phi-1 tiny language model. See if you agree with me that it tells us so much more than how to do good coding, it affects AGI timelines by telling us whether data will be a bottleneck. I cover 5 other papers, including WizardCoder, Data Constraints (how more epochs could be used), TinyStories, and more, to give context to the results and end with what I think timelines might be and how public messaging could be targeted. With extracts from Sarah Constantin in Asterisk and Carl Shulman on Dwarkesh Patel, Andrej Karpathy and Jack Clark (co-founder of Anthropic), as well as the Textbooks and TinyStories co-author himself, Ronen Eldan, I hope you get something from this one. And yes, the title of the paper isn’t the best.