Links for 2021-09-07
Gossip about a Q&A with Sam Altman [CEO of OpenAI] — "GPT-4 is coming, but currently the focus is on coding (i.e. Codex) and that's also where the available compute is going. GPT-4 will be a text model (as opposed to multi-modal). It will not be much bigger than GPT-3, but it will use way more compute. People will be surprised how much better you can make models without making them bigger." [...] "AGI (program able to do most economically useful tasks ...) in the first half of the 2030ies is his 50% bet, bit further out than others at OpenAI." https://web.archive.org/web/20210907020903/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aihztgJrknBdLHjd2/sam-altman-q-and-a-gpt-and-agi
A Layman’s Guide to Recreational Mathematics Videos https://samenright.com/2021/08/31/a-laymans-guide-to-recreational-mathematics-videos/
A functional connectome containing 200,000 cells, 75,000 neurons with physiology, and 523 million synapses. https://www.microns-explorer.org/cortical-mm3
The Inner Alignment Problem: Evan Hubinger on building safe and honest AIs https://towardsdatascience.com/the-inner-alignment-problem-9eb5f234226b
AI Algorithm Matches Cardiologists’ Expertise, While Explaining Its Decisions https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/08/421301/ai-algorithm-matches-cardiologists-expertise-while-explaining-its-decisions
Real-world tests show life-saving potential of defibrillator drones https://newatlas.com/drones/real-world-tests-defibrillator-drones/
Better Than Batteries? A Startup That’s Storing Energy in Concrete Blocks Just Raised $100 Million https://singularityhub.com/2021/09/01/better-than-batteries-a-startup-thats-storing-energy-in-concrete-blocks-just-raised-100-million/
"The three Storegga Slides are amongst the largest known submarine landslides. They occurred at the edge of Norway's continental shelf in the Norwegian Sea, approximately 6225–6170 BCE. The collapse involved an estimated 290 km (180 mi) length of coastal shelf, with a total volume of 3,500 km^3 (840 cu mi) of debris, which caused a tsunami in the North Atlantic Ocean." https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/10/7/270/xml
Proof Wallis Product Using Integration https://mathematicsart.com/solved-exercises/proof-wallis-product-using-integration/
Dune (2021): The Royal Houses Featurette youtube.com/watch?v=m1ZDp9FEvLA