Links for 2023-02-07
Legendary programmer John Carmack: 60% chance of AGI by 2030, 95% by 2050. The Singularity Is Near š https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-different-path-to-artificial-general-intelligence/ [See also: Date AIs Capable of Developing AI Software: Dec 28, 2027; Date Weakly General AI is Publicly Known: Feb 17, 2028; AI Wins IMO Gold Medal: Feb 26, 2028;]
Google's response to ChatGPT: Bard https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/
No evidence for ESP in state-of-the-art replication study: āTired of untrustworthy studies? Our new paper...describes methods for creating highly credible research that is verifyable by the reader. We demonstrate credibility via: Direct Data Deposition (instantly push data to repository as it is collected); Born Open Data; Real-time research report (live report on the findings); External Research and IT audit; Tamper-evident data collection software (git tracked); Video-verified training of experimenters; Laboratory logs; Manual of research protocol; Checklist for experimenters; Pilot study; Software testing; Preregistration (including full analysis code); Registered report; Open data, open code, open research materials...ā https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1621485429005352961.html
Describe, Explain, Plan and Select: Interactive Planning with Large Language Models Enables Open-World Multi-Task Agents https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01560
Creating a Large Language Model of a Philosopher: Fine-tunes GPT-3 with the works of philosopher Daniel C. Dennett. While experts could distinguish generated statements from the real ones better than random, ordinary participants couldn't. https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01339
āInstead of thinking about just the matter, or just the radiation by itself, in the cavity you need to include the light-matter interaction, and you can end up with states called polaritons that are combinations of matter + radiation excitations.ā http://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/01/cavities-and-tuning-physics.html
'One of the greatest damn mysteries of physics': The most precise astronomical test of electromagnetism yet https://phys.org/news/2022-11-greatest-damn-mysteries-physics-precise.html
"āWe expect that our work will prove extremely valuable to the chemistry, materials, and condensed matter communities for synthesizing new and currently unpredictable materials with exotic properties,ā https://scitechdaily.com/unlocking-the-unimaginable-revolutionary-new-method-for-materials-discovery/
Discovering and forecasting extreme events via active learning in neural operators https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02488
Hereās why Texas is a geothermal energy āsleeping giantā https://electrek.co/2023/01/25/texas-geothermal-energy/
āI've lived in the former Soviet Union for seven years and have a master's degree on it, but I'm not sure I've seen anything that makes you feel what the insanity of that period was like this does.ā ā Neil Hauer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke600MgW1F0
Social race and genetic ancestry are nearly interchangeable https://openpsych.net/paper/65/
The icy moon Mimas, hanging in space against a backdrop of mighty Saturn.
NASA Photojournal image PIA06142, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 7 November 2004 at a distance of 3.7 million kilometres from Saturn.