Links for 2024-06-25
AI:
Neural Network Potentials for Enabling Advanced Small-Molecule Drug Discovery and Generative Design https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/genbio.2024.0011
“ESM3 is a generative language model for programming biology. In experiments, we found ESM3 can simulate 500M years of evolution to generate new fluorescent proteins.” https://www.evolutionaryscale.ai/blog/esm3-release
RL on Incorrect Synthetic Data Scales the Efficiency of LLM Math Reasoning by Eight-Fold https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14532
LongRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Long-context LLMs https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15319
Microsoft unveiled Florence-2, a new generalist AI vision model. It uses prompt-based instructions and excels in tasks like captioning, object detection, OCR, and segmentation. Most notably, it's 100x smaller than similar models and open-sourced. https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Florence-2-large
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it won't be until GPT-6 in 2 years time that AI models will be able to follow instructions and take consistent action https://youtu.be/cNzRviY4Ei8?si=2ELY9k7ozbs7SQc4&t=1331
Frontier AI systems could pose increasing risks to public safety and security. But what level of risk is acceptable? https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14713
LLMs may be fundamentally incapable of fully general reasoning, and if so, short timelines are less plausible. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/k38sJNLk7YbJA72ST/llm-generality-is-a-timeline-crux
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Neuroscience:
New Computational Model of Real Neurons Could Lead to Better AI — “The new model developed by researchers at the Flatiron Institute proposes that biological neurons have more control over their surroundings than previously thought, something that could be replicated in the artificial neural networks used in machine learning.” https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/06/24/new-computational-model-of-real-neurons-could-lead-to-better-ai/
Brain-Like Language Processing via a Shallow Untrained Multihead Attention Network https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15109
Reconstructing seen movies from mouse visual cortex🐭🧠https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.19.599691v1 (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA6Oi5NfuMs)
A novel treatment has been proven to effectively treat cognitive decline in mice with Alzheimer’s disease. https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2024/6/20/damage-synapses-caused-alzheimers-disease-reversed
The Path Towards Mammalian Whole-Brain Circuit Mapping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZhvsJw7P_Q
Neurotechnology: Past, Present, and Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNP4_3cbLxA
Technology:
Northrop Grumman's solution to drones: a MACE sensor tower, a lightweight 30mm XM914 chaingun and XM1211 proximity-fuzed HE rounds, all working together off the back of two trucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr7ym1zkda8
Terahertz Waves Supercharged: A Breakthrough With Magnetic Materials https://www.wpi-aimr.tohoku.ac.jp/en/achievements/press/2024/20240610_001808.html
Miscellaneous:
NASA, Global Astronomers Await Rare Nova Explosion – so bright it will be visible on Earth with the naked eye – is poised to occur. https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/nasa-global-astronomers-await-rare-nova-explosion/
Mistakes people make when thinking about units https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5vfSNLb92eyXKkQax/mistakes-people-make-when-thinking-about-units
Politics:
President Yoon declares 'national emergency' on low birth rates https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2024/06/20/YOAKDV6D35EBDPFS2UNTVKQR7E/
How bad would nuclear winter caused by a US-Russia nuclear exchange be? https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pMsnCieusmYqGW26W/how-bad-would-nuclear-winter-caused-by-a-us-russia-nuclear
Ukraine:
One of Russia’s main defense electronics producers and research centers, NII Platan near Moscow, is on fire, with staff trapped inside and jumping out of the window. According to Platan’s archived website, its components are used in all Russian fighter jets, nuclear launch munitions, S-400 air defenses and various guided munitions. https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1805247426611069003
“This evening, Ukrainian forces successfully struck the Russian NIP-16 space tracking and communication center in Vitino, Crimea with multiple MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles.” https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1804968315024199767
“On June 21, 2024, a strike was carried out on the 726th Air Defense Training Center in Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai, by two cruise missiles, likely R-360 "Neptune." The center, which trains personnel to use various UAVs, suffered significant damage. The strike killed instructors and technical personnel from Yelabuga, destroyed ~20 Shahed-136 attack UAVs, ~50 Lancet attack UAVs, and ~40 ZALA reconnaissance UAVs. There is no reported information about military personnel casualties.” https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1805203728108060878
“An ammunition depot in the village of Olkhovatka, Voronezh region in Russia, was damaged by a drone attack this morning, causing explosions that lasted for hours.” https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1805502877340733757
Two Russian Pantsir-S1 air defence systems destroyed on the Kharkiv front! https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1805511540801523858
Aftermath of a successful Ukrainian HIMARS strike on a Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense system, Donetsk Oblast. https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1805623288363712994
“What appears to be the first time in history when a video of the M30 DPICM GMLRS missile strike has been published. Burchak, Zaporizhzhia front, strike on the accumulation of the Russian infantry.” https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1804930769099309137
Video of the Russian attack on the Mariinka front repelled by the 33rd Brigade of Ukraine https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1805173901170765899