Links for 2022-06-30
Humans vs. Gary Marcus vs. Slate Star Codex: When is an AI failure actually a failure? https://www.surgehq.ai/blog/humans-vs-gary-marcus
GPT-3 is -right now- already more than capable of enabling student plagiarism https://philosophybear.substack.com/p/gpt-3-is-right-now-already-more-than
MIT Space Bubbles Would Fully Reverse Global Warming https://senseable.mit.edu/space-bubbles/
“An impressive paper was just published in Nature, in which atomically precisely fabricated structures in Si were used as an analog model of a very famous problem in physics, the topological transition in trans-polyacetylene.” http://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2022/06/implementing-model-of-polyacetylene.html
Alexa goes down the conversational rabbit hole https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/23/alexa-goes-down-the-conversational-rabbit-hole/
Remarkable Intelligence: Octopus and Human Brains Share the Same “Jumping Genes” https://scitechdaily.com/remarkable-intelligence-octopus-and-human-brains-share-the-same-jumping-genes/
“I think there’s clear evidence that the current murder spike was caused primarily by the 2020 BLM protests.” https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/what-caused-the-2020-homicide-spike
“Trying to keep track of Berlin’s decisions and their relation to any underlying policy has been for many like trying to make sense of a drunk who keeps falling asleep...even well-informed German commentators have been speculating about what kind of kompromat Putin might have on Scholz and other Social Democrats...” https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/stop-being-surprised-by-germany