Links for 2022-08-19
Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works https://www.quantamagazine.org/self-taught-ai-shows-similarities-to-how-the-brain-works-20220811/
“Training runs of large Machine Learning systems are likely to last less than 14-15 months. This is because longer runs will be outcompeted by runs that start later and therefore use better hardware and better algorithms.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RihYwmskuJT9Rkbjq/the-longest-training-run
“This paper proposes the first formal causal definition of agents -- roughly that agents are systems that would adapt their policy if their actions influenced the world in a different way. From this we derive the first causal discovery algorithm for discovering agents from empirical data, and give algorithms for translating between causal models and game-theoretic influence diagrams.” https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/XxX2CAoFskuQNkBDy/discovering-agents
“The last golden age of new materials was so long ago, we rarely think about materials as a driver of technological progress. I make the case that this is changing.” https://www.tsungxu.com/materials-paradigm/
3D-Stacked CMOS Takes Moore’s Law to New Heights https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-cmos
Hyundai Announces $400M AI, Robotics Institute Powered by Boston Dynamics https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/12/hyundai-announces-400m-ai-robotics-institute-powered-by-boston-dynamics/
The U.S. made a breakthrough battery discovery — then gave the technology to China. https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1114964240/new-battery-technology-china-vanadium
Why thinking hard makes you tired https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220811135344.htm
"Uganda's tiny Indian community accounted for 90% of its tax revenues before being expelled in 1972. They were permitted to return in the 1980s, and today (despite being only 1% of the population) account for 65% of Uganda's tax revenues." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36132151