Links for 2023-01-29
OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete https://www.semafor.com/article/01/27/2023/openai-has-hired-an-army-of-contractors-to-make-basic-coding-obsolete
ChatGPT for biology? Large language models generate functional protein sequences across diverse families https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01618-2.epdf?sharing_token=tQchRjQkTwW3DreRGgAbv9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Pu2lRVFjdUQUZYh-sME0ZJtauHVEn-eT_t0bpIAkyuOaXhjcTUsCrL1GusqFMxjr_cjcX3M3rTm3IhoOqaLr17tkTG1RLxbNqj78nHHyo19q1E--NzHmOEClF8UImPS5c%3D
Text-To-4D Dynamic Scene Generation: Presents MAV3D (Make-A-Video3D), a method for generating three-dimensional dynamic scenes from text descriptions. https://make-a-video3d.github.io/
A database of scaling laws for different tasks and architectures https://twitter.com/pvllss/status/1619020219363786753
Deepfakes: Faces Created by AI Now Look More Real Than Genuine Photos https://singularityhub.com/2023/01/26/deepfakes-faces-created-by-ai-now-look-more-real-than-genuine-photos/
Big Tech was moving cautiously on AI. Then came ChatGPT. [The Washington Post] https://archive.is/PT5G5
China's transformation into a major auto exporter has been wildly underreported. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1618815976556081153.html
Once seen as a culture-bound syndrome unique to Japan, a growing body of evidence suggests that hikikomori (extreme social withdrawal) is a global phenomenon. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-023-00425-8
"This study contributes preliminary evidence that associations between moderate alcohol consumption and reduced risk for depression may reflect genuine causal effects." https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.22010043
Humanity's struggle with viruses has left its mark on our DNA: 10% of our genetic code is made up of viral genetic material. [published in 2016] https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161128151050.htm
“Metal smelting emits lead (Pb) by looking at the amount of lead deposits in ice cores and lake deposits you can trace the amount of metal production in history and see Western Europe overtaking other regions C.1600.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1616511932130893825.html
“Don't fear the semicolon. Here's how to use it” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1616427878580908033.html
Which Countries are the Most Polarized? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/polarization-across-28-countries/
This implicitly argues that rational actors like the United States should yield the world stage to irrational actors like Russia because they might start a nuclear war by mistake. But this would encourage ruthless actors to create such situations deliberately.
People like Cummings make nuclear war more likely by revealing that such threats can influence their behavior in Russia's favor. Threatening to destroy the world unless Russia leaves Ukraine wouldn't work because there is no Cummings in Russia who could be swayed by that.