Links for 2022-06-29
Early human fossils found in cave are a million years older than expected https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61976369
“More Is Different In Other Domains...Future ML Systems Will Be Qualitatively Different ….my conclusion is that emergence is very common throughout the sciences, and especially common in biology, which I view to be most analogous to ML.” https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/appendix-more-is-different-in-related-fields/
'A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence' by Yann LeCun — “The paper distills much of my thinking of the last 5 or 10 years about promising directions in AI.” https://openreview.net/forum?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf
Assessing AlephAlphas Multimodal Model https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EzuBSASuui5qekhLA/assessing-alephalphas-multimodal-model
“Half in UK back genome editing to prevent severe diseases. Survey also finds younger generations far more in favour of designer babies than older people are.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/22/half-in-uk-back-genome-editing-to-prevent-severe-diseases
Alexa will soon be able to speak to you in your relative's voice https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/alexa-soon-able-speak-relatives-125358435.html
reStructured Pre-training: Achieves 40 points higher than the average scores made by students and 15 points higher than GPT3 with 1/16 parameters. https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11147
“North Korea sent 20 Korean People's Air Force pilots and 19 non-combat personnel to Egypt during the Yom Kippur War. The unit had four to six encounters with the Israelis from August through the end of the war.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93North_Korea_relations
“Operation Babylon, was a surprise airstrike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera
Imagine if instead of transgender people, autistic people were at the top of the woke caste system:
1. Woke women would stop saying things they don't mean, avoid eye contact, and explain their facial expressions during conversations.
2. Teen girls would claim to have Asperger syndrome, start caring about truth rather than appearance, and learn to code.
3. Sarcasm would become a hate crime.
4. People like James Damore would be celebrated, appear in ads, and write acclaimed best-seller books. Anyone making fun of their eccentricity and quirks would be banned from social networks.