Links for 2022-08-03
New hardware offers faster computation for artificial intelligence, with much less energy (1,000 times smaller and 10,000 times faster than their biological counterparts) https://news.mit.edu/2022/analog-deep-learning-ai-computing-0728
A reminder that Google's new large language model, Minerva, has achieved 50.3% performance on the MATH dataset (problems at the level of high school math competitions), a dramatic improvement on the previous state of the art of 6.9%. https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/06/minerva-solving-quantitative-reasoning.html
"Odin requires no prior knowledge about the structure of objects in real-world scenes, raising the possibility of discovering the structure of arbitrary sensory modalities and their combinations." https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08777
A rendition of Genesis 1 using only words that start with “A”, produced with AI help https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.html
Why This Zig-Zag Coast Guard Search Pattern is Actually Genius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoXJfuPaFF8
“The latest report shows that the consumption of old music grew another 14% during the first half of 2022, while demand for new music declined an additional 1.4%. These old tunes now represent a staggering 72% of the market.” https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/the-new-numbers-on-music-consumption
"Unpicking the link between smell and memories: The ability of aromas to bring back highly specific memories is becoming better understood, and could be used to boost and heal our brains" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01626-x
How Wikipedia influences judicial behavior https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/how-wikipedia-influences-judicial-behavior
Language Model Cascades: how we can unify existing methods for interacting models (scratchpad/chain of thought, verifiers, tool-use, …) in the language of probabilistic programming. https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.10342
Cousin marriage parents associated with about 250g lower birthweight. https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcpp.13066
“Every problem in the world is ultimately an energy problem if you dig few levels deep.
We choose to have energy problems.”
— @tobi