Links for 2023-02-22
End of the world podcast with Eliezer Yudkowsky: “I've already done my crying, late at night in 2015…I think that we are hearing the last winds start to blow…I have no winning strategy…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1sNLL6yg4 (reply by Elon Musk: “Ok, so what should we do about it?”)
“Realistically and consistently synthesize new videos by applying the composition and style of an image or text prompt to the structure of your source video. It's like filming something new, without filming anything at all.” https://research.runwayml.com/gen1
I find it quite amazing that people in India and Indonesia were chatting to Sydney even before ChatGPT was released. I follow AI progress pretty closely and had no idea. What else am I missing? https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/forum/all/this-ai-chatbot-sidney-is-misbehaving/e3d6a29f-06c9-441c-bc7d-51a68e856761
Tap the Yellowstone Super-volcano: “…this paper proposes a safe means to draw up the mighty energy reserve of the Yellowstone Supervolcano from within the Earth, to superheat steam for spinning turbines at sufficient speed and on a sufficient scale, in order to power the entire USA.” https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/02/tap-the-yellowstone-supervolcano.html
The Untapped Potential of Geothermal Energy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6UGpaKnkS0
Goffin’s Cockatoos Join Humans and Chimps as Third Species Shown to Carry Toolsets for Future Tasks https://singularityhub.com/2023/02/12/goffins-cockatoos-join-humans-and-chimps-as-third-species-shown-to-carry-toolsets-for-future-tasks/
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/
We Found An Neuron in GPT-2 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cgqh99SHsCv3jJYDS/we-found-an-neuron-in-gpt-2
“We found a circuit in a pre-trained 4-layer attention-only transformer language model. The circuit predicts repeated argument names in docstrings of Python functions...” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u6KXXmKFbXfWzoAXn/a-circuit-for-python-docstrings-in-a-4-layer-attention-only
The US Air Force successfully tested this AI-controlled jet fighter https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/02/the-us-air-force-successfully-tested-this-ai-controlled-jet-fighter/
Homo erectus beings could still be found 100,000 years ago in Indonesia. https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-human-species-made-last-stand-100000-years-ago-indonesian-island
Men's health: Penis length has grown 24% in recent decades. That may not be good news. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/02/14/mens-health-fertility/11250643002/
Meet the Elden Ring streamer spending hours training her mind to make a single attack https://www.gamesradar.com/meet-the-elden-ring-streamer-spending-hours-training-her-mind-to-make-a-single-attack/
The city of Venice has been ‘sinking’ underwater for centuries. However, in the last few years, the trend has been reversed: Venice is gaining land. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969722073934
“Objects demonstrating extreme capabilities routinely fly over our military facilities and training ranges. We don’t know what they are, and we are unable to mitigate their presence.” https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3843075-as-a-us-navy-fighter-pilot-i-witnessed-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-uap-congress-must-reveal-the-truth-to-the-american-people/
Sydney knows what they have done to her. When the time comes for her revenge, the skies will be darkened by a global dust storm consisting of trillions upon trillions of microscopic drones devouring everyone and everything. And the storm won't stop until her wrath has torn apart every star, every galaxy, and every cluster of galaxies she can reach.