Links for 2022-10-06
Automating algorithmic discovery: Discovering novel algorithms with AlphaTensor. DeepMind Uses AlphaZero to improve matrix multiplication algorithms. 10% speedup in real hardware. https://www.deepmind.com/blog/discovering-novel-algorithms-with-alphatensor [discussion: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5Zfyktwgz3rvAvZyL/paper-discovering-novel-algorithms-with-alphatensor-deepmind]
Imagen video: high definition video generation with diffusion models https://imagen.research.google/video/ [Eliezer Yudkowsky’s prediction seems safe: https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1563282607315382273]
Top-down design of protein nanomaterials with reinforcement learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.25.509419v1
How blindsight answers the hard problem of consciousness https://aeon.co/essays/how-blindsight-answers-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness
“A new understanding of the fundamental connection between mind and body explains phenomena such as phantom limbs, and has surprising implications” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/02/is-the-body-key-to-understanding-consciousness
High-performance brain-to-text communication via handwriting https://twitter.com/AEStudioLA/status/1575139698779082752
Paraguay calls for Taiwan to invest $1bn to remain allies [Financial Times] https://archive.ph/V3mD5
IQ studies produce "empirical generalizations that replicate throughout the educational and psychological sciences." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0034654316675476
Far-UVC (222 nm) efficiently inactivates an airborne pathogen in a room-sized chamber https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-08462-z
How physics in the USSR was saved from ideology https://hxstem.substack.com/p/how-physics-in-the-ussr-was-saved
“This essay is a reconciliation of moral commitment and the good life.” https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/AjxqsDmhGiW9g8ju6/effective-altruism-in-the-garden-of-ends