Links for 2022-07-01
"Minervaš¦: a language model capable of solving mathematical questions using step-by-step natural language reasoning. Combining scale, data and others dramatically improves performance on the STEM benchmarks MATH and MMLU-STEM...Evaluating our model in 2022 Polandās National Math Exam it performed above the national average, it solved more than 80% GCSE Higher Mathematics problems and evaluated a variety of STEM undergraduate problems from MIT, it solved nearly a third of them." https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/06/minerva-solving-quantitative-reasoning.html?m=1
Awesome. Magical. Mind-blowing. The 100 prisoners problem. -- The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer https://youtu.be/iSNsgj1OCLAm (More here: The most counterintuitive facts in all of mathematics, computer science, and physics https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/the-most-counterintuitive-facts-in)
AI-driven protein engineering research: āAs models scale from 151M to 6.4B parameters, we are able to better capture the distribution of protein sequences drawn from observed evolutionary data...For narrow fitness landscapes, (1) scaling our model size leads to degrading performance (2) our smallest model outperforms an order-of-magnitude larger published modelā¦ā https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13517
Can artificial intelligence (AI) uncover new ideas? As machines are learning fast and becoming increasingly intelligent, can AI not only automate the production function of goods and services, but also of ideas? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4140916
āWe learn quadruped walking from scratch in 1 hour. We also learn to pick & place balls directly from pixels and sparse rewardsā https://danijar.com/project/daydreamer/
Why America Will Lose Semiconductors: The US national, state, and local governments have created tax and regulatory policy that makes investing in new manufacturing capacity for semiconductors incredibly difficult. https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/why-america-will-lose-semiconductors
Teaching circuits as the first computational model. Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science https://windowsontheory.org/2022/06/21/teaching-circuits-as-the-first-computational-model/
San Franciscoās best public high school reinstates merit-based admissions after a lottery system produced miserable failure https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/06/24/san-franciscos-best-public-high-school-reinstates-merit-based-admissions-after-a-lottery-system-produced-miserable-failure/
Brain practices new tasks while we sleep https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/06/scientists-find-link-between-sleep-and-learning-new-tasks/
Amazonās First Fully Autonomous Warehouse Robot Is Called Proteus https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/21/23177756/amazon-warehouse-robots-proteus-autonomous-cart-delivery
Drug Prevents Premature Aging After Radiotherapy https://elifesciences.org/articles/75492