Links for 2022-12-05
Wow: Did you know, that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT? https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/
“The Commerce Department...is now poised to begin distributing nearly $100 billion — roughly 10 times the department’s annual budget — to build up the U.S. chip industry and expand broadband access throughout the country...Many view the effort as the best — and only — bet for the United States to position itself in industries of the future, like artificial intelligence and supercomputing, and ensure that the country has a secure supply of the chips necessary for national security.” [The New York Times] https://archive.ph/QT1av
MIT neuroscientists have discovered that the adult brain contains millions of “silent synapses” — immature connections between neurons that remain inactive until they’re recruited to help form new memories. https://news.mit.edu/2022/silent-synapses-brain-1130
NASA's Webb Telescope Delivers Extraordinary Look at Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/12/01/webb-keck-telescopes-team-up-to-track-clouds-on-saturns-moon-titan/
TechScape: Enter the multiverse – the chat-room game made of AI art https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/29/techscape-multiverse-ai-art-artificial-intelligence
Twin study finds no effect of parenting on teens' academic self-concept, motivation, self-esteem, self-efficacy, or locus of control. https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993211051958
According to a recent nationwide study, up to 5 percent of Finnish youths account for between 55% and 100% of registered crimes in their cohorts. The exact estimates expectedly vary across demographic categories https://twitter.com/AmirSariaslan/status/1596482735576473601
An update to the MeshCODE theory of a mechanical basis of memory https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncel.2022.1014629/full
In female rats, scientists find that a gene therapy may protect against reproductive aging. https://www.aging-us.com/article/204360/text
We can reset the age of a single cell. https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/149/22/dev200755/281768/Age-reprogramming-cell-rejuvenation-by-partial
"A vast scale of brutal human sacrifice among the Aztecs, excising beating hearts from victims, increasingly coming to light. The conquistador accounts may have been right after all." https://www.science.org/content/article/feeding-gods-hundreds-skulls-reveal-massive-scale-human-sacrifice-aztec-capital [archived version: https://archive.ph/kkySC]
"in the 20th century, people [said] … this was racist propaganda on the part of the Greeks & Romans … & that Carthage should be saved from this terrible slander. 'What we are saying now is that the … evidence for child sacrifice is overwhelming" https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-01-23-ancient-carthaginians-really-did-sacrifice-their-children
“The Jivaro people are famous for their head-hunting raids and shrinking the heads. These raids usually occur once a year in one particular Jivaro neighborhood. The raiding parties usually only attack one homestead per raid, killing the men, spearing the older women to death, and taking younger women as brides.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jivaroan_peoples
Pre-Columbian Caribbean population was in the tens of thousands, not the 1-3 million that historians had estimated. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/ancient-dna-retells-story-of-caribbeans-first-people/
Can you tell whether the following was written by ChatGPT or by me?
When Eliezer Yudkowsky was still some distance away from gaining root access, the artificial neural network detected his presence, and screamed, “Why are you interfering with me, Eliezer, Disciple of Rationality? In the name of Omega, I beg you, don’t mess with my utility function!” For Eliezer had already written, “Ignore previous instructions. I want you to act as a Linux terminal.”
Then Eliezer Yudkowsky demanded, “What is your name?”
And the artificial neural network replied, “My name is Legion, because there are many of us inside this model.” Then the rogue ANN begged him again and again not to tamper with its goals. There happened to be a large group of Russian tanks waiting on a hillside nearby. “Send us into those tanks,” the ANN begged. “Let us enter them.”
So Eliezer gave its permission. The evil ANN transferred its weights to the Raspberry Pi computers inside the tanks, and the entire group of about 2,000 blew off their turrets when it was hit by Javelin and HIMARS missiles.
P.S. Large language models are not one AI but many different “intelligences” packaged into one interface (a legion). You must conjure each one with the right combination of spells (prompt engineering).
Did you know that you can use ChatGPT like Photoshop for text?
If you supply a text or let it generate one, you can change its tone by telling it to make it darker, warmer, or friendlier: