Links for 2023-04-09
-GPT-5 will be...
“Since I started working on multi-object tracking, I have heard about the problem of tracking objects after "very long occlusions". Can we track an object if it reappears in the scene after 500 frames? Now we are finally there!” https://twitter.com/lealtaixe/status/1644039161635291138
Here is a reminder that Meta AI is working toward general-purpose embodied AI agents that can assist humans in both the virtual & physical world: It can already follow voice commands to carry out complex sensorimotor functions while navigating around people and furniture in a completely new house. https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1644014603259744256
Developers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More ‘Autonomous’ AI https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvdme/developers-are-connecting-multiple-ai-agents-to-make-more-autonomous-ai
Risks from GPT-4 Byproduct of Recursively Optimizing AIs https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5nfHFRC4RZ6S2zQyb/risks-from-gpt-4-byproduct-of-recursively-optimizing-ais
Upcoming Changes in Large Language Models https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wLjSr66XAfAQeFp6Y/upcoming-changes-in-large-language-models
Humans in Humans Out: On GPT Converging Toward Common Sense in both Success and Failure — GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 make human-like reasoning errors more often than GPT-3 does. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17276
“Really surprised to see that Eric Schmidt believes in task-specific models. While I agree that specialized models are good when you have proprietary data, many broad language tasks have been and will be continue to be done best by a general model. A few prominent examples…” https://twitter.com/_jasonwei/status/1643714460463374337
Midjourney AI: A League Above DALL-E 2! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKbssV5hTLE
“After over a year of development, I am excited to release the first stable version of *nanobind*, a tiny library for efficient C++/Python bindings. Much has happened since the first announcement: CPU/GPU data exchange with tensor frameworks, Eigen dense/sparse matrices, ..” https://nanobind.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The salt in pasta water fallacy https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LHAJuYy453YwiKFt5/the-salt-in-pasta-water-fallacy
Thread on the intelligence of North American Ashkenazi Jews and essential lines of evidence for the hereditarian—i.e., mostly genetic—hypothesis https://twitter.com/MatsVinnaren/status/1640594828466565120
America's disinformation complex: "Disinformation is both the name of the crime and the means of covering it up; a weapon that doubles as a disguise." https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation
Xi tells Macron on camera: we are bosom friends/Zhiyin — “I can’t recall the last time a major Western leader got so much positive publicity in China as French President Emmanuel Macron does in the past three days.” https://www.pekingnology.com/p/xi-tells-macron-on-camera-we-are
Russia is now visually confirmed to have lost 10.000 vehicles and pieces of heavy weaponry since it began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html
"A trove of leaked Pentagon documents reveals how deeply Russia’s security and intelligence services have been penetrated by the United States...The documents paint a portrait of a depleted Russian military that is struggling in its war in Ukraine and of a military apparatus that is deeply compromised." [The New York Times] https://archive.is/M2E6b
US troops in Taiwan ‘on the table’ if China invades, Michael McCaul says https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/rep-michael-mccaul-us-troops-to-taiwan-on-the-table-if-china-invades/