Links for 2022-10-15
Lessons learned from talking to >100 academics about AI safety https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SqjQFhn5KTarfW8v7/lessons-learned-from-talking-to-greater-than-100-academics
“Smaller language models armed with Mind's Eye can obtain similar performance to models that are 100x larger.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05359
Interactive Language: Talking to Robots in Real Time: “We find that the same policy is capable of being guided by a human via real-time language to address a wide range of precise long-horizon rearrangement goals, e.g. "make a smiley face out of blocks".” https://interactive-language.github.io/ [AI will have a radical, transformative impact over the next 10 to 20 years!]
Advanced Nuclear Moves Beyond Water and Into Salt https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/advanced-nuclear-moves-beyond-water-and-into-salt
"The great spotted cuckoo and the brown-headed cowbird both repeatedly visit the nests they’ve parasitised. If they find that their egg has been rejected, they will destroy the host’s nest and kill the remaining nestlings." https://tobyknott.substack.com/p/why-do-birds-care-for-cuckoo-chicks
“Extending the previous analyses to a set of five mental traits suggests that about 21% of people are “abnormal” on at least one of their personality traits” https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/10/05/say-no-to-neurotypification/
Similarly to the so-called Flynn effect in humans, laboratory mice and rats may have become more intelligent in the last century. https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289622000812
A flexible process that could turn cheap solar energy into economic value at massive scale? [Bloomberg] https://archive.ph/9YLd8
Confirmation of aboriginal Taiwanese legends of dark-skinned pygmy people (Pas-ta'ai) who inhabited the island before they arrived? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2022.2121315?scroll=top&needAccess=true
The Sound Of This Nighttime Suicide Drone Strike Is Absolutely Terrifying https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40265/the-sound-of-this-nighttime-suicide-drone-strike-is-absolutely-terrifying
“The inclusion of women in higher education is a great achievement for Western liberal societies. How is this changing academic culture?” https://quillette.com/2022/10/08/sex-and-the-academy/
EU to train up to 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-train-up-15000-ukrainian-soldiers-spiegel-2022-10-03/