Links for 2023-01-23
Large language models learn to represent the world: “…it seems that their token-predicting model has built itself what amounts to an internal model of the Othello board's state, which it is using to decide what moves to predict.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Neh76ueECviJ6p75o/large-language-models-learn-to-represent-the-world
A conversational UI for image editing is coming https://www.timothybrooks.com/instruct-pix2pix
Google Research, 2022 & Beyond: Language, Vision and Generative Models https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/01/google-research-2022-beyond-language.html
ChatGPT is able to simulate age groups https://fabianzeindl.com/posts/chatgpt-simulating-agegroups
Evidence for evolution: Hairless animals have dead genes for a full coat of hair https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/01/15/we-have-dead-genes-for-a-full-coat-of-hair/
The High Schooler Who Solved a Prime Number Theorem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqi_6v2RGB0
There is evidence that viruses dormant in our genomes can wake up when we are older and harm us. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01530-6
Using solar power generation in countries such as Switzerland results in a net energy loss: though the solar panels produce energy, they never recoup the energy investment needed to make them and deploy them. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421517302914
Transplanting rejuvenated blood stem cells extends lifespan of aged immunocompromised mice. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41536-022-00275-y
“This system for ranking triangle centers is essentially the same as Google’s PageRank algorithm, giving higher rank to pages that are linked to by high ranking pages. And computing PageRank is indeed an enormous linear algebra problem, specifically an eigenvalue problem.” https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/01/14/foreshadowing-page-rank/
How a 4-Hour Battle Between Russian Mercenaries and U.S. Commandos Unfolded in Syria [published in 2018 by The New York Times] https://archive.is/ttNUd