Links for 2022-09-06
"The Curious Hole in My Head: Born without my left temporal lobe, a brain region thought to be critical for language, I’ve been a research subject for much of my life" [NYT] https://archive.ph/EjMZe
Meta AI predicts speech solely from brain activity, non-invasively. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-speech-brain-activity/
“What in vitro fertilization selects for, and how it is shaping human evolution…some studies from the Nordic countries, where income disparity is low and IVF is often subsidized by the state, show that IVF parents score well above average on markers of cognitive ability…” https://academic.oup.com/humupd/article/28/4/457/6555833
"Since 2021, as part of the research for 'What We Owe the Future', I have been working on a report on climate change from a longtermist perspective. The report aims to provide the most complete treatment of that question yet produced." https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BvNxD66sLeAT8u9Lv/climate-change-and-longtermism-new-book-length-report
“Diffusion for music synthesis! We trained a “notes2audio” pipeline to synthesize audio from multi-instrument MIDI notes.” https://twitter.com/fjord41/status/1564347901031043072
Will voice actors be replaced by AI? [Financial Times] https://archive.ph/zPpgu
“My friends in India guessed facts about America. No one got anything right.” https://theneverendingfall.substack.com/p/my-friends-in-india-guessed-facts?sd=pf
A review of Matthew Ball's "The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything." https://thetycoonist.com/2022/08/29/review-the-metaverse/
The UK is significantly expanding a training programme in Britain to turn potentially tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens into frontline soldiers to fight Russia https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-uk-programme-to-train-citizen-soldiers-is-expanding-12690320
“Russia buying millions of rockets and shells from North Korea...US official says deal shows Russia is continuing to suffer severe supply shortages...North Korea became the only nation aside from Russia and Syria to recognise the self-proclaimed republics in Luhansk and Donetsk...” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/06/russia-buying-millions-rockets-shells-north-korea-us-intelligence-ukraine