Links for 2023-04-16
Video ChatCaptioner can generate the enriched video spatiotemporal description through the conversation between ChatGPT and BLIP-2: https://github.com/Vision-CAIR/ChatCaptioner
Sam Altman: Size of LLMs won’t matter as much moving forward https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/14/sam-altman-size-of-llms-wont-matter-as-much-moving-forward/
“I think this is why OpenAI is not training GPT5 -- future might actually be decomposed modules interacting, rather than yet another giant monolithic GPT*X module” https://twitter.com/bradneuberg/status/1647045002051067907
AI may finally take a chunk out of the legal profession. [The New York Times] https://archive.is/dlHNP
“Universal Music Group has told streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple, to block artificial intelligence services from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs, according to emails viewed by the Financial Times. UMG, which controls about a third of the global music market, has become increasingly concerned about AI bots using their songs to train themselves to churn out music that sounds like popular artists.” [Financial Times] https://archive.is/5Ft0E (see also: The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century [published in 2018] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ)
Instant Videos Could Represent the Next Leap in A.I. Technology “Ian Sansavera, a software architect at a New York start-up called Runway AI, typed a short description of what he wanted to see in a video. ‘A tranquil river in the forest,’ he wrote.” [The New York Times] https://archive.is/fQTBz
"Hermes, an experimental large-language model for military planning" by Scale AI & US Marine Corps https://warontherocks.com/2023/04/how-large-language-models-can-revolutionize-military-planning/
Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships: “We find that using algorithmic responses changes language and social relationships. More specifically, it increases communication speed, use of positive emotional language, and conversation partners evaluate each other as closer and more cooperative. However, consistent with common assumptions about the adverse effects of AI, people are evaluated more negatively if they are suspected to be using algorithmic responses.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-30938-9
“Has anyone slapped monte-carlo tree search on top of an LLM yet, with each token selection representing a branch? Use logprobs as the initial node bias and train a discriminator to score the leaf nodes?” https://twitter.com/GrantSlatton/status/1645459211080568833
Do women disagree less in science? Large gender differences in willingness to point out and penalize a mistake in someone’s work. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/04/do-women-disagree-less-in-science.html
Lidar has become much less expensive and is now cheap enough to be integrated into consumer devices (including the iPhone 12). https://medium.com/predict/the-lidar-revolution-52e888a0ce41
Tiny Hybrid Robot Can Identify, Capture a Single Cell https://newatlas.com/robotics/tiny-hybrid-robot-identify-capture-single-cell/
Simple decoding of behavior from a complicated neural manifold https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.05.535396v1
This Researcher Knew What Song People Were Listening to Based on Their Brain Activity https://singularityhub.com/2023/04/06/this-researcher-knew-what-song-people-were-listening-to-based-on-their-brain-activity/
Clarketech: Technologies Indistinguishable from Magic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXL2Hd_dOzw&t=1s
As the last three German nuclear power plants have now been shut down, it is worth remembering that this is the result of decades of disinformation campaigns designed to sabotage nuclear power.
If the world had embraced nuclear power, climate change could have been defeated decades ago. And we could still do it, as reactors can be built within 3 to 5 years. The only reason this isn't happening is because of the regulations put in place as a result of these disinformation campaigns.
For more, check this thread: https://twitter.com/XiXiDu/status/1617911860413751296