Links for 20210822
Forecasting transformative AI: what's the burden of proof? — (chances of transformative AI being developed by different dates are: 10% by 2036; 50 % by 2060; 2/3 by 2100) https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/esjFeM48jT7Svnfwu/forecasting-transformative-ai-what-s-the-burden-of-proof
WeChat wins in WMT news translation: What used to be the specialism of Google, Microsoft, is now a global game https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02401
How do powerful image-text models have an impact on society https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02818
"On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models", Bommasani et al 2021 (extensive discussion of GPT-3, BERT, etc implications for medicine, law, research, education...) https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07258
SpaceX Mechazilla: Starship's giant orbital grabbing arm explained https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-mechazilla-starships-giant-orbital
How COVID-19’s origins were obscured, by the East and the West https://thebulletin.org/2021/08/how-covid-19s-origins-were-obscured-by-the-east-and-the-west/
Australia’s Mount Wingen has been burning for 6,000 years. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/08/17/slow-burn/
These Nuclear Reactors Can Be Mass Produced In Shipyards