Links for 2022-10-25
“Just how striking are the recent language model results with Flan-PaLM? Here's a plot. Across 57 tasks on mathematics, US history, computer science etc., Flan-PaLM surpasses **both** the June 2023 and June 2024 SotA forecasts from this summer by competitive forecasters.” https://twitter.com/SamuelAlbanie/status/1584257440891416576
Goalkeeping Robot Dog Tends Its Net Like a Pro: Mini Cheetah, in fact, outperforms the entire English Premiere League https://spectrum.ieee.org/football-robot-mini-cheetah
The Easy Guide to Using OpenAI’s Whisper Model to Transcribe [and Translate] Video and Audio https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2022/10/16/the-easy-guide-to-using-openais-whisper-model-to-transcribe-video-and-audio/
AI researchers announce NeuroAI agenda https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nNbnzegz7ppewZgCG/ai-researchers-announce-neuroai-agenda
“Throughout five experiments (total N = 120), we show that eight-month-old infants punished antisocial others.” https://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2022/10/third-party-punishment-by-preverbal.html
When great apes encounter evidence contradicting their beliefs during a decision task, they pause to check the evidence before making a final decision – an impressive cognitive feat. Human children don't do it till they're around five. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2021.2686
New Discovery Indicates an Alternative Gravity Theory https://scitechdaily.com/new-discovery-indicates-an-alternative-gravity-theory/
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(22)00236-4
Germany's political establishment in a nutshell:
Original tweets and Facebook post:
1. https://twitter.com/jreichelt/status/1584145655387545600
2. https://twitter.com/jreichelt/status/1584166851113721860
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