Links for 2022-11-16
State of AI Report 2022: “The China-US AI research gap has continued to widen, with Chinese institutions producing 4.5 times as many papers than American institutions since 2010, and significantly more than the US, India, UK, and Germany combined. Moreover, China is significantly leading in areas with implications for security and geopolitics, such as surveillance, autonomy, scene understanding, and object detection.” https://www.stateof.ai/
Introducing Galactica. A large language model for science. Can summarize academic literature, solve math problems, generate Wiki articles, write scientific code, annotate molecules and proteins, and more. http://galactica.org
A new LLM-based search engine. Trained to predict the next *link* from a query, in the same way that GPT-3 is trained to produce the next word. https://metaphor.systems/
“Our robot dog can go up and down stairs, it can walk over stepping stones where even a single bad foot placement would lead to a disastrous fall, and it can handle rough, varied terrain. All with just a single onboard RGBD camera, onboard compute, and no maps of the environment. This robot, trained completely in simulation, is the culmination of work done in the last 3 years by a tiny team. Compare with the decades of work behind Boston Dynamics amazing walking machines.” https://vision-locomotion.github.io/
Will we run out of ML data? Evidence from projecting dataset size trends https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Couhhp4pPHbbhJ2Mg/will-we-run-out-of-ml-data-evidence-from-projecting-dataset
This Free Comic Series Is Gorgeous. You’d Never Know AI Drew It https://www.cnet.com/culture/this-free-comic-series-is-gorgeous-youd-never-know-ai-drew-it/
"Genetic susceptibility for schizophrenia had a much stronger impact on risk of illness for those with low versus high intelligence." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4391822/
Lego's Animated 3D-Printed Duck Is a Sneak Peek at the Building Toy's Future https://gizmodo.com/lego-3d-printing-printable-print-duck-toy-minifig-house-1849751375
100% efficient conversion of CO2 into carbon monoxide, the first step for many industrial process or permanent carbon storage. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-11-efficient-electrochemical-conversion-carbon-dioxide.html
The biological function of love for non-kin is to gain the trust of people we cannot deceive https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/52p2otYaSprs4DSeg/the-biological-function-of-love-for-non-kin-is-to-gain-the
Scientists Tap Into Biology’s ‘Mirror Dimension’ to Create Ultra-Strong Synthetic RNA https://singularityhub.com/2022/11/08/scientists-tapped-into-the-mirror-dimension-of-biology-to-create-ultra-strong-synthetic-rna/
How woke language distorts the world https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/08/how-woke-language-distorts-the-world/
Reality is stranger than fiction. Or is this a simulation? Sounds increasingly plausible: