Links for 2021-11-02
A great horror short story by Anders Sandberg http://aleph.se/andart2/fiction/bright-hunger/
Teaching robots to perceive, understand, and interact through touch https://ai.facebook.com/blog/teaching-robots-to-perceive-understand-and-interact-through-touch
How much do students’ scores in PISA reflect general intelligence and how much do they reflect specific abilities? https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-90838-001
China’s People’s Liberation Army (and others) try to break and fix image classifiers https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09903
"In each country and region, more boys than girls aspired to a things-oriented or STEM occupation and more girls than boys to a people-oriented occupation. These sex differences were larger in countries with a higher level of women's empowerment." https://psyarxiv.com/zhvre/
"[C]himpanzees act in such a way as to accommodate multiple possibilities at once. Contrary to earlier findings, these results suggest that chimpanzees not only think about what is but also about what could be." https://cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01252-5
Mozart Therapeutics Launches with $55 Million Series A Financing to Develop Disease Modifying Therapeutics for Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/mozart-therapeutics-launches-with-55-million-series-a-financing-to-develop-disease-modifying-therapeutics-for-autoimmune-and-inflammatory-diseases/
“Do we still need SGD/Adam to train neural networks? Based on our #NeurIPS2021 paper, we are one step closer to replacing hand-designed optimizers with a single meta-model. Our meta-model can predict parameters for almost any neural network in just one forward pass.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13100
In the UK, the educated classes, are declining in IQ compared to the rest. The gap between classes I/II (professional, intermediate) and class III (skilled) fell by one third of a standard deviation after 1980. https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v8-16-325/