Links for 2023-02-06
Anomalous Tokens: “…we discovered that these tokens lead to very peculiar behaviour. They appear to be unspeakable - GPT models seem largely incapable of repeating these anomalous tokens, and instead respond in a number of weird ways.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldmagikarp-plus-prompt-generation
"Oh the Things You’ll Do with Bing’s ChatGPT", Owen Yin (claims about previewing MS Bing's forthcoming integration) https://medium.com/@owenyin/scoop-oh-the-things-youll-do-with-bing-s-chatgpt-62b42d8d7198
"Amazingly ChatGPT gets hired at L3 when interviewed for a coding position." https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/google-testing-chatgpt-like-chatbot-apprentice-bard-with-employees.html
Widespread horizontal gene transfer between plants and their microbiota https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.25.505314.full
Cost reductions in biological data collection and advances in tools to probe ever deeper into biology might soon revolutionize drug discovery. https://nintil.com/biology-llms/
“New estimate of the consumer surplus of the internet just dropped. If it's accurate, then there was no great stagnation.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1618811567105282048.html
What does Nick Bostrom think? Predicting unstated beliefs is often harder than you think https://cremieux.substack.com/p/what-does-nick-bostrom-think
Sex is concentrated within a small, yet sexually active, group of people. https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1618565662921850881
CU research team moves one step closer to printing models of life-like 3D organs https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/01/26/cu-research-team-moves-one-step-closer-printing-models-life-3d-organs
Mnemosyne: Learning to Train Transformers with Transformers https://sites.google.com/view/mnemosyne-opt
“China is NOT heading for collapse! Evaluating Peter Zeihan’s curious claims” https://www.ideassleepfuriously.com/p/china-is-not-heading-for-collapse
“China is dying and its fertility rate (TFR) will be difficult to stabilize at 0.8. It is expected that about 8.3 million births will be officially announced for 2023. TFR for 2021 & 2022 are estimated by applying age-specific fertility of 2020 census, based on births.” https://twitter.com/fuxianyi/status/1621558993322639362
How to successfully deal with crime: El Salvador rounded up 60,000 criminals during a 10-month state of exception that has curbed basic constitutional rights https://elfaro.net/en/202302/el_salvador/26694/Bukele-Government-Dismantled-Gang-Presence-in-El-Salvador.htm
via @whyvert