A Wave Of Billion-Dollar Language AI Startups Is Coming https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2022/03/27/a-wave-of-billion-dollar-language-ai-startups-is-coming/?sh=186e6a112b14
China is setting a roadmap for researching big neural network models https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14101
Current Large Language Models are significantly undertrained https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556
STaR: Bootstrapping Reasoning With Reasoning — “Generating step-by-step "chain-of-thought" rationales improves language model performance on complex reasoning tasks like mathematics or commonsense question-answering.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14465
Brainiacs, not birdbrains: Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute — "Research unveiled in Science finds that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals." [published in 2020] https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/crows-possess-higher-intelligence-long-thought-primarily-human/
AI assistants could greatly reduce the work it takes to discover important new materials. Could this lead to a “golden age of materials science”? https://techxplore.com/news/2022-02-ai-material-discovery.html
DeepMind AlphaFold: A Gift To Humanity! 🧬https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYVf0bRgO5Q
“Reliable AI requires learning robust behaviours that generalise well. New work by our safety team shows how this robustness arises in reinforcement learning from playing a game against an imagined adversary.” https://deepmindsafetyresearch.medium.com/your-policy-regulariser-is-secretly-an-adversary-14684c743d45
Here’s an excellent discussion of concurrency in several different programming languages, and what can be learned from them. https://dmitrykakurin.medium.com/concurrency-in-go-pony-erlang-elixir-and-rust-35a4eb4bb48f
Batteries smaller than a grain of salt can be placed on a chip with a small microprocessor. This is an important step towards “smart dust.” https://techxplore.com/news/2022-02-world-smallest-battery-power-size.html
Auto-generated Summaries in Google Docs https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/03/auto-generated-summaries-in-google-docs.html
“My mistake about errors in the presentation of axiomatic set theory” https://blog.plover.com/2022/02/23/#jech-2
A narrow majority of Japanese support restarting idled nuclear reactors for first time since 2011 Fukushima disaster, according to a new poll https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-28/most-japanese-back-nuclear-power-for-first-time-since-fukushima
“The estimates imply that 250 additional [Covid vaccine] doses, with a marginal cost around $5000, leads to one expected life saved.” https://www.nber.org/papers/w29884
Elon Musk on solar and nuclear: “I want to be super clear. You should not only not shut down the nuclear power plants, but you should also reopen the ones that have already shut down.” https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-interview-axel-springer-tesla-war-in-ukraine-2022-3
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Sorry, but it's rational to be extra cautious about nuclear Armageddon. Kasparov is doing nothing but expressing a demagogic emotional reaction