Links for 2023-01-12
AGI and the EMH: markets are not expecting aligned or unaligned AI in the next 30 years https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ngpC5PFAgxHJMhicM/agi-and-the-emh-markets-are-not-expecting-aligned-or-1
Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models: “...a general and scalable algorithm based on world models that outperforms previous approaches across a wide range of domains...Notably, using larger models consistently increases not only its final performance but also its data-efficiency. Applied out of the box, DreamerV3 is the first algorithm to collect diamonds in Minecraft from scratch without human data or curricula, a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence. Our general algorithm makes reinforcement learning broadly applicable and allows scaling to hard decision making problems.” https://danijar.com/project/dreamerv3/
Gene Therapy Mediated Partial Reprogramming Extends Lifespan and Reverses AgeRelated Changes in Aged Mice [PDF] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.04.522507v1.full.pdf
Self-Powered Solar Aerial Vehicles: Towards Infinite Endurance UAVs https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07904
Lysosome spheroids as the cause for Alzheimer's disease https://nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05491-6
"compare the performance of 2,444 airports in 217 countries under three types of ownership: public, private equity, and non-private-equity private. … 1996 [-] 2019, airports owned by private equity funds [had better] performance across many dimensions." https://nber.org/digest/20231/privatizing-infrastructure-evidence-airports
Richard Hanania defends Canadian euthanasia. https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/canadian-euthanasia-as-moral-progress
A college professor has started to use ChatGPT as a teaching tool. His ideas focus on ChatGPT’s flaws: for example, having it write an essay for students to analyze and correct. https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/how-to-use-ai-to-teach-some-of-the
Large language models can be used to understand physician’s notes. https://news.mit.edu/2022/large-language-models-help-decipher-clinical-notes-1201
"A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom: An investment frenzy over “generative artificial intelligence” has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text, images and sounds in response to short prompts seize the imagination" [The New York Times] https://archive.is/FkzvJ
Books on Xi's shelf https://beijingchannel.substack.com/p/books-on-xis-shelf