Links for 2022-02-17
DeepMind Podcast [scroll down to the episode called The road to AGI]: “An in-depth look at building artificial general intelligence (AGI) -- "Hannah meets DeepMind co-founder and chief scientist Shane Legg, the man who coined the phrase ‘artificial general intelligence’, and explores how it might be built. Why does Shane think AGI is possible? When will it be realised? And what could it look like? Hannah also explores a simple theory of using trial and error to reach AGI and takes a deep dive into MuZero, an AI system which mastered complex board games from chess to Go, and is now generalising to solve a range of important tasks in the real world.” https://link.chtbl.com/DeepMind
How AI is Changing Chemical Discovery https://thegradient.pub/how-ai-is-changing-chemical-discovery/
Moore’s Not Enough: 4 New Laws of Computing https://spectrum.ieee.org/on-beyond-moores-law-4-new-laws-of-computing
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported: "Ross Doerr, another Second Sight patient, doesn’t mince words: “It is fantastic technology and a lousy company,” he says...more than 350 other blind people around the world with Second Sight’s implants in their eyes, find themselves in a world in which the technology that transformed their lives is just another obsolete gadget." https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
Boston’s Federal Reserve Says It Has Solved Technical Challenges of a ‘Digital Dollar’ https://www.engadget.com/boston-federal-reserve-says-it-has-solved-technical-challenges-of-a-digital-dollar-111209132.html
Clarifying the palatability theory of obesity https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cAxKAL9dJhbiWxWaH/clarifying-the-palatability-theory-of-obesity
SSD prices could spike after Western Digital loses 6.5 billion gigabytes of NAND chips https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/11/22928867/western-digital-nand-flash-storage-contamination
Behavioural and neuroimaging evidence suggesting that older adults store too much information in their memories, relative to young adults. These memory representations can be viewed as "cluttered" or "enriched" depending on the context. Despite this, the wealth of prior knowledge can improve creativity and decision-making. https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/pb-assets/journals/trends/cognitive-sciences/responsive/S1364661321003107-1644607818963.pdf
What is the role of memory in creative thinking? A meta-analysis of over 50 years of research tries to find out. https://psyarxiv.com/ag5q9/
Humans afford the high energetic costs of life not through energy-saving adaptations—such as bipedalism or sophisticated tool use—but by acquiring energy at a far greater rate than our closest evolutionary great ape cousins, a recent Science study found. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abf0130
Why Musk’s biggest space gamble is freaking out his competitors. Starship is threatening NASA’s moon contractors, which are watching its progress with a mix of awe and horror. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/12/elon-musk-space-freaking-out-competitors-00008441
How did global deaths from disasters change over the last century? We've become more resilient: https://ourworldindata.org/century-disaster-deaths
What do you think your country should do in response to the rise of China as a military and economic power?
Source (p. 55): https://securityconference.org/assets/02_Dokumente/01_Publikationen/MunichSecurityReport2022_TurningtheTide.pdf
You are placed under solitary confinement for one year. But you're allowed to take 3 books with you.
What books do you pick?
I might pick these: