Links for 2022-10-11
“Hacked together a twitter bot that uses @OpenAI #whisper to translate any videos in any tweets, in... any language...It's mind-blowing how good it is!” https://twitter.com/altryne/status/1576741225226698752
"Some of these systems are coming to a point where we not only do not know how the models we trained are able to show specific capabilities, we are very much in the dark even about what capabilities they might have." https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/9/263799-changing-the-nature-of-ai-research/fulltext
GPT3 only costs $500k to train now https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/gpt-3-quality-for-500k
Interview: Alexei Kitaev of Caltech physics recalls childhood in Russia, college, thesis research on quasicrystals, meeting John Preskill and quantum information theory, and contributions in AdS/CFT, topological phases, and superconductivity. https://heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-updates/alexei-kitaev
Chernobyl black frogs reveal evolution in action https://theconversation.com/chernobyl-black-frogs-reveal-evolution-in-action-191034
“Russia's reverses in Ukraine and Putin's nuclear saber-rattling have stoked anxieties that Russia might use its non-strategic nuclear weapons. An under-appreciated consideration is that we can't predict the physical consequences of such an attack confidently.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1576731532802154501.html
How AI Image Generators Work (Stable Diffusion / Dall-E) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CIpzeNxIhU
Clear Crystal Conundrums, A Multifaceted Intro to Group Theory https://explanaria.github.io/crystalgroups/
Provably efficient machine learning for quantum many-body problems https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk3333
Analysis: US restricts GPU sales to China https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oBTkthd7h8sDpkiu2/analysis-us-restricts-gpu-sales-to-china
Geothermal Gains Ground With Reliable Clean Energy Demands https://clearpath.org/our-take/geothermal-gains-ground-with-reliable-clean-energy-demands/