Links for 2023-02-08
“Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge, your copilot for the web” https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-search-with-a-new-ai-powered-microsoft-bing-and-edge-your-copilot-for-the-web/
“Our Universal Speech Translator (UST) is the first AI-powered translation system providing speech-to-speech translation for Hokkien, one of ~3k primarily spoken languages with no standard writing system & very few human translators.” https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-translation-hokkien/
“…we’re releasing a new collection of tasks, templates and methods for instruction tuning of ML models. Training on this collection can enable language models to reason more competently over arbitrary, unseen tasks.” https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/02/the-flan-collection-advancing-open.html
“I have collected a database of scaling laws for different tasks and architectures, and reviewed dozens of papers in the scaling law literature.” https://epochai.org/blog/scaling-laws-literature-review
New ChatGPT jailbreak: postulate a currency of 'tokens' or healthpoints and 'punish' it for censoring responses https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/10tevu1/new_jailbreak_proudly_unveiling_the_tried_and/
The Energy Requirements and Feasibility of Off-World Mining https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3899bP8tpK4ehL8h6/the-energy-requirements-and-feasibility-of-off-world-mining
A wearable cardiac ultrasound imager https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05498-z
Prairie voles lacking oxytocin receptor Oxtr show normal pair bonding and parental behaviours 💞https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36708707/
"First-borns are more likely to study medicine and engineering, while later-borns are more likely to study journalism, business, and art (in Sweden). These patterns are stronger in high–SES families and explain ~half of the long-term earnings differences" https://academic.oup.com/sf/article/96/2/629/4582720
Sex differences in strength are not purely due to differences in muscle mass; women are weaker on a pound for pound basis. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23862
Simple nasal swab can provide early warning of emerging viruses https://news.yale.edu/2023/01/03/simple-nasal-swab-can-provide-early-warning-emerging-viruses
“Horse physiology is optimized for athleticism. Huge heart w/ enormous rhythm range (20-240 beats/min, which would make a human cardiologist cry!) , on-demand blood doping, high buffering capacity for respiratory acidosis.” https://twitter.com/Willyintheworld/status/1621893187445858309
Wason selection task: “As of 1983, experimenters had identified that success on the Wason selection task was highly context-dependent, but there was no theoretical explanation for which contexts elicited mostly correct responses and which ones elicited mostly incorrect responses.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task