Links for 2022-11-08
Meta AI trained an LLM to predict protein sequences. In doing so, the model learns 3D protein structure *emergently* without instruction. Performs 60x faster than SOTA. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/protein-folding-esmfold-metagenomics/
GPT-3 Can Talk Like the Philosopher Daniel Dennett Without Parroting His Words http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2022/11/gpt-3-can-talk-like-dennett-without.html
Lab-grown blood given to people in world-first clinical trial https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63513330
"Cognitive ability was the single strongest predictor of political tolerance, with larger effects than education, openness, ideology, and threat... Ability predicted tolerance best when extending such tolerance was hardest." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jopy.12667
"A stable regime must maintain this power inversion. If stability is lost, the political core takes control. For an instant, the engine becomes a real democracy—then it turns into something else, or just catches fire and explodes. Think Germany in 1933" https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-clear-pill-part-1-of-5-the-four-stroke-regime/
“The limit to our predictions of solar eclipses is not due to uncertainty about planetary or lunar orbits, but that the length of the day varies somewhat randomly (tidal interaction, mantle, atmosphere) making the locations drift.” (via @anderssandberg) https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/uncertainty.html
Rubber duck debugging: “The idea behind the rubber duck debugging technique is that when a programmer gets held back by bugs, the code is explained line by line to a rubber duck. Think about this technique as a process in which you type a message to be posted on social media and read it out loud before you post it.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
How we use binary search to find compiler bugs. https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/cinder-jit-bisect/
DRAM’s Moore’s Law Is Still Going Strong: Micron Technology pushes ahead with 35 percent density boost and does it without advanced lithography tool https://spectrum.ieee.org/micron-dram
“Nuclear energy is carbon-free, reliable 24/7, and incredibly safe -- yet it remains misunderstood, rarely celebrated, and deeply underinvested in. I wrote this essay about why that is, and how we can build more of it.” https://juliadewahl.com/nuclear-energy-past-present-future
‘We were completely exposed’: Russian conscripts say hundreds killed in attack https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/07/we-were-completely-exposed-russian-conscripts-say-hundreds-killed-in-attack
Soon you might have a virtual AI-clone of yourself that can say everything you would say yourself, just better than you could. A wittier, more eloquent, and knowledgeable version of yourself.
Do you need to call an associate? Your AI-clone will make the call for you. And your associate will use their own AI-clone to communicate with yours.
All social interactions will be automated. Meanwhile, you will be plugged into the Metaverse being fed an endless stream of AI-generated content optimized by neurofeedback to be maximally addictive.