“Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Language Models: Multimodal-CoT, our model under 1B parameters outperforms the previous state-of-the-art LLM (GPT-3.5) by 16% (75.17%→91.68%) on the ScienceQA benchmark and even surpasses human performance” https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00923
“The Case of the Incredibly Long-Lived Mouse Cells: Scientists kept the rodents’ immune T cells active four times longer than mice can live—with huge implications for cancer, vaccination, and aging research” [Wired] https://archive.is/Kodkd
Building a 10M-parameter GPT model from scratch and training it on Shakespeare. https://youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
Interview with Noam Shazeer, founder of "full-stack AGI company" Character.AI and co-inventor of the Transformer architecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxFj5jdb6qQ
StrictlyVC in conversation with Sam Altman: (part one) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57OU18cogJI (part two) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebjkD1Om4uw
“Music & sound effect industry has not fully understood the size of the storm about to hit. There’re not just one, or two, but FOUR audio models in the past week *alone* If 2022 is the year of pixels for generative AI, then 2023 is the year of sound waves.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1621189554517729280.html
Ironclad’s AI Assist™ Brings Generative AI to Contracting https://ironcladapp.com/blog/ai-assist-ai-contract-management/
“We introduce prediction-powered inference – a framework for performing valid statistical inference when an experimental data set is supplemented with predictions from a machine-learning system such as AlphaFold.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09633
Emergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents https://wijmans.xyz/publication/eom/
“We propose a model for how brains achieve the remarkable feat of monitoring our own performance.” https://rdcu.be/c4gGc
Who Invented Paper? A New Discovery in Egypt Upends the Consensus https://newlinesmag.com/essays/who-invented-paper-a-new-discovery-in-egypt-upends-the-consensus/
Why did the UK destroy and replace so many of its old Victorian buildings? https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1618135670186471426.html
“CIA: Xi ordered military to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027...He added this does not mean the Chinese leader has decided to invade Taiwan in 2027 or some other year.” https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230203_18/
The brown spots mark impact sites of comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 on Jupiter's southern hemisphere.
Fragment G created a giant dark spot over 12,000 km (almost one Earth diameter) across, and was estimated to have released an energy equivalent to 6,000,000 megatons of TNT (600 times the world's nuclear arsenal).
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9
Regarding the Chinese spy balloon over the United States (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64507225):
Google has been experimenting with high-altitude balloons for years and used machine learning to keep them flying over 300 days in a row.
1. A Bird? A Plane? No, It’s a Google Balloon Beaming the Internet: “A fleet of high-altitude balloons started delivering internet service to Kenya on Tuesday, extending online access to tens of thousands of people in the first-ever commercial deployment of the technology.” https://archive.is/pvWE8
2. "An artificially intelligent pilot developed by Alphabet's balloon-manufacturing subsidiary Loon can keep huge stratospheric balloons aloft in a fixed position for hundreds of days to operate as floating cell towers for remote regions." https://www.newscientist.com/article/2261369-googles-ai-can-keep-loon-balloons-flying-for-over-300-days-in-a-row/
3. Machine learning sits at the heart of balloon navigation in Google’s Project Loon. This article is about the unprogrammed behaviours such as tacking, loitering, and figure 8s, and why they emerge. https://blog.x.company/1-million-hours-of-stratospheric-flight-f7af7ae728ac
4. "How Google's hot air balloon surprised its creators: Algorithms using artificial intelligence are discovering unexpected tricks to solve problems that astonish their developers. But it is also raising concerns about our ability to control them." https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-how-googles-hot-air-balloon-surprised-its-creators
See also: U.S. military’s newest weapon against China and Russia: Hot air https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/05/u-s-militarys-newest-weapon-against-china-and-russia-hot-air-00043860
I've thought, for some time, that the whole UFO debate was basically creating a narrative encouraging people to act as open-source intelligence agents for the American security state. (https://alakasa.substack.com/p/the-american-ufo-boom-might-just) The "Chinese balloon" saga may indicate this is taking on a new type of a dimension.