Links for 2023-03-10
Learning Humanoid Locomotion with Transformers: "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a fully learning-based method for real-world full-sized humanoid locomotion." https://humanoid-transformer.github.io/
“…a new way of generating robot behavior by representing a robot's visuomotor policy as a conditional denoising diffusion process. We benchmark Diffusion Policy across 11 different tasks from 4 different robot manipulation benchmarks and find that it consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art robot learning methods with an average improvement of 46.9%.” https://diffusion-policy.cs.columbia.edu/
Prompt, Generate, then Cache: Cascade of Foundation Models makes Strong Few-shot Learners https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02151
GPT-4 is coming next week – and it will be multimodal, says Microsoft Germany https://www.heise.de/news/GPT-4-is-coming-next-week-and-it-will-be-multimodal-says-Microsoft-Germany-7540972.html
DeepMind alignment team's strategy https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a9SPcZ6GXAg9cNKdi/linkpost-deepmind-alignment-team-s-strategy
Over 100+ new products this week with the ChatGPT API release. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1633197599267213313
“An international team of scientists has charted a path to creating a biological computer powered by human brain cells that could allegedly overtake silicon-based machines while using less energy.” [Financial Times] https://archive.is/Bm67H
A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3639
Meet the space billionaire who is interested in something other than rockets https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/meet-the-space-billionaire-who-is-interested-in-something-other-than-rockets/
“The Free Energy Principle is an unfalsifiable tautology” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MArdnet7pwgALaeKs/why-i-m-not-into-the-free-energy-principle
Prevalence, Timing, and Network Localization of Emergent Visual Creativity in Frontotemporal Dementia https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2802050
"adolescents with an IQ of 130 were 3-5 times less likely to have had intercourse than those with average IQ...boys with an IQ that would qualify for intellectual disability (60) were still more likely to have had sex than those with a very high IQ (130)" https://www.ideassleepfuriously.com/p/do-women-really-select-for-intelligence
Lead: A Global Health Problem https://conversableeconomist.com/2023/02/15/lead-a-global-health-problem/
A Surprising New Method for Converting Light Into Electricity https://scitechdaily.com/a-surprising-new-method-for-converting-light-into-electricity/
Fascinating: Politicians decided to limit sulphur emissions from ships, inadvertently ending an unintended geoengineering effect that was cooling the oceans.
If this trend continues that could mean that the Northern Hemisphere mid latitudes (where many of us live) will warm much more rapidly.
It could also impact global and regional weather systems, like the monsoons.
Also: This shows that solar radiation management works and is easy to do.
Read more: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1633566568528375811.html
Germany fact of the day: 61% are in favor of reintroducing compulsory military service.
The left-most dark green portion is the share of each party who want it for both sexes.