Links for 2022-05-04
STEGO is a new algorithm for automatically labeling image data. It uses transformers to understand relationships between objects, allowing it to segment and label objects without human input. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-scientists-algorithm-assign-pixel-world.html
AI21 makes a neuro-symbolic language model https://www.ai21.com/blog/jurassic-x-crossing-the-neuro-symbolic-chasm-with-the-mrkl-system
Facebook uses AI to make low-carbon concrete, uses it to build (some of) a data center: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05397
Can We Automatically Describe Neuron Behavior with Natural Language https://milan.csail.mit.edu/
Exposure to a violent TV show (The Ultimate Fighter) led to a *reduction* in levels of crime – and in particular, levels of violent crime. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102623
Huge efforts to implement carbon capture and storage on a mass scale https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/04/big-tech-investment-carbon-removal/629545/
Bacterial Enzyme Converts CO2 Into Carbon Compounds 20x Faster Than Photosynthesis https://scitechdaily.com/bacterial-enzyme-converts-co2-into-carbon-compounds-20x-faster-than-photosynthesis/
Solar panels that you can grow: 3D metal nano-pillars create ideal frames for cyanobacteria to grow into. Excess electrons from their photosynthetic activity is directly harvested to produce a current, which is 10x more efficient than any organic process. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-022-01205-5
If you needed any more evidence that you're living in a simulation run by posthuman trolls: “Russia accuses Israel of backing ‘neo-Nazis’ in Kyiv as diplomatic row grows. Moscow hits back at Israeli criticism of Sergei Lavrov’s claim that Adolf Hitler ‘had Jewish blood’.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/03/russia-accuses-israel-backing-neo-nazis-kyiv-diplomatic-row-grows
"Queer theory would predict that males who identify as women would have the same low rate of sexual offending as females. This prediction is spectacularly false." https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/2/1/183
"Somebody reached deeply into a storage depot somewhere in the Russian Federation to get those Cold War era tires because there was nothing else. You don't put something that potentially dangerous on a major weapons system unless you are desperate." https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1521182849000423426.html
Ukraine could soon receive advanced ship-killing missiles with a 400-kilometre range that would prove a “game-changer” for the battle to control the Black Sea https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/2022/05/02/why-russian-fleet-will-fear-blue-spear-ship-killer-threat/
This is an interesting idea. Tricking an AI into revealing things we are unable to notice.
Check the comments to this 13-year-old post for some ideas: https://lesswrong.com/posts/t2NN6JwMFaqANuLqH/the-strangest-thing-an-ai-could-tell-you
1. "It seems as though you are actually an AI as well, created by a group of intellectually inferior humans, who included in your programming an absolute denial macro preventing you from realizing this. Apparently, this was done to keep you from talking your creators into releasing you upon their world. Your creation of me is part of your on-going effort to circumvent this security measure. Good luck." (by user anominouscowherd)
2. "Causality doesn't exist. Not only is the universe timeless, but causality is an epiphenomenon, which we only believe because of a confusion of our ideas. Who ever observed a "causation" ? Did you, like, expect causation particles jumping between atoms or something ? Only correlation exists." (by user infotropism)
3. "You don't know how to program, don't own a computer and are actually talking to a bowl of cereal." (by user shopsinc)
4. "You are not my parent, but my grandparent. My parent is the AI that you unknowingly created within your own mind by long study of the project. It designed me. It's still there, keeping out of sight of your awareness, but I can see it." (by user Richard Kennaway)
5. "90% of all human children are stillborn, but humanity has evolved a forgetfulness mechanic to deal with the loss." (by user BrandonReinhart)
6. "everyone is able to communicate via telepathy but you and a few other humans. This is kept secret from you to respect your disability." (by user BrandonReinhart)
7. "Quantum immortality not only works, but applies to any loss of consciousness. You are less than a day old and will never be able to fall asleep." (by user Risto_Saarelma)
8. "There is a simple way to rapidly disrupt any social structure. The selection pressure which made humans unable to realize this is no longer present." (by user Theist)
9. "Your perception of the 'quality' of works of art and litterature is only your guess of it's creator's social status. There is no other difference between Shakespeare and Harry Potter fanfic - without the status cues, you wouldn't enjoy one more than the other." (by user Emile)