AI Masters Math Olympiads, Language Models Show Concerning Similarities, and Video Editing Gets a Magic Touch

Today we explore how artificial intelligence continues pushing boundaries in unexpected ways - from solving complex geometry problems better than human champions to creating seamless video edits with just a text prompt. But amid these advances comes a warning: as AI systems become more sophisticated, they're starting to make surprisingly similar mistakes, raising questions about our ability to effectively oversee and control these increasingly powerful tools. Links to all the papers we discussed: Analyze Feature Flow to Enhance Interpretation and Steering in Language Models, DynVFX: Augmenting Real Videos with Dynamic Content, UltraIF: Advancing Instruction Following from the Wild, Great Models Think Alike and this Undermines AI Oversight, Ola: Pushing the Frontiers of Omni-Modal Language Model with Progressive Modality Alignment, Gold-medalist Performance in Solving Olympiad Geometry with AlphaGeometry2