Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools. This paper shows that LMs can use external tools via API to teach themselves. Toolformer is a model trained to decide which APIs to call, when to call them and incorporate the results. https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761
New mouse study shows genes aren’t only way to pass obesity to next generation https://www.statnews.com/2023/02/07/epigenetics-obesity-mouse-study/
ChatGPT is good at re-writing code that has been intentionally obfuscated in a clear, human-readable version. https://twitter.com/AlexAlexandrius/status/1617876020593557506
GPT is all you need for the backend https://github.com/TheAppleTucker/backend-GPT
“A 3D Printer Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? A 3D-Printing Factory: A startup founded by SpaceX veterans aims to realize the potential of a technology whose big promises have never quite come through.” [Bloomberg] https://archive.is/EMcLe
“A pure fusion weapon is a hypothetical hydrogen bomb design that does not need a fission "primary" explosive to ignite the fusion of deuterium and tritium, two heavy isotopes of hydrogen used in fission-fusion thermonuclear weapons. Such a weapon would require no fissile material and would therefore be much easier to develop in secret than existing weapons.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_fusion_weapon
The following is a table of many of the most fundamental Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) words and roots, with their cognates in all of the major families of descendants. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_vocabulary
Italy is the fastest aging country in the west. [The New York Times] https://archive.is/DkPbb
Most Education is Wasteful and Immoral https://sotonye.substack.com/p/most-education-is-wasteful-and-immoral
“just 1.21% of the 148,012 feature-length films released in the 2010s contained depictions of sex, the lowest percentage of any decade since the 1960s” [Time] https://archive.is/O1W3d
Structural-Functional Brain Network Coupling Predicts Human Cognitive Ability: “Brain region-specific coupling strategies can actually predict individual levels of general cognitive ability 🧠- even in unseen subjects and in a completely independent replication sample.” https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.09.527639v1
What Russia Got Wrong https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/what-russia-got-wrong-moscow-failures-in-ukraine-dara-massicot
From 2019: Turkish cities could become 'graveyards' with building amnesty, engineers say https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-construction/turkish-cities-could-become-graveyards-with-building-amnesty-engineers-say-idUSKCN1QF1VU
Here’s what I call an “LLM Search Dilemma”. Thought experiment:
Case 1: Google/Bing search returns top links that contain misinfo. People blame the linked sites.
Case 2: Bard/ChatGPT simply copy lines from those top links, verbatim. Now people blame search engines.
Providing… https://t.co/F2bh6lXvJn
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Link for you: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade1083
See images of charts/tables in supplemental material. Public views on polygenic screening of embryos.
Thanks for sharing my edu piece.