Links for 2023-04-22
Solving Math Word Problems by Combining Language Models With Symbolic Solvers
We propose an approach that combines an LLM that can incrementally formalize word problems as a set of variables and equations with an external symbolic solver that can solve the equations.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09102
Scientists set up an experiment where birds could request to video chat with each other. Turns out birds love to video chat with their friends. https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/21/parrots-talking-video-calls/
A general-purpose material property data extraction pipeline from large polymer corpora using natural language processing https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-023-01003-w
Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09433
Why Simulator AIs want to be Active Inference AIs https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/YEioD8YLgxih3ydxP/why-simulator-ais-want-to-be-active-inference-ais
Low-code LLM: Visual Programming over LLMs https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08103
They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam. [Washington Post] https://archive.is/P6GJP
Google DeepMind: Bringing together two world-class AI teams https://blog.google/technology/ai/april-ai-update/
“How can we compare the computations in one brain to those in another? The answer has taught us a lot about representing non-linear dynamical systems in general.” https://twitter.com/AGosztolai/status/1645423127592153089
Autonomous optimization of neuroprosthetic stimulation parameters that drive the motor cortex and spinal cord outputs in rats and monkeys https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(23)00118-0
“Researchers found a connection between neuropeptides regulating food intake in jellyfish and fruit flies, despite 600 million years of divergence.” https://scitechdaily.com/appetite-control-ancient-roots-of-hunger-regulation-revealed-by-jellyfish-and-fruit-flies/
Kurzgesagt video on loud vs. quiet aliens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDSf2h9_39I
Making a low-cost (€100) detector for electron microscopy, far cheaper than the hardware supplied by commercial SEM vendors. https://www.hardware-x.com/article/S2468-0672(23)00020-2/fulltext
Life on Rogue Planets: A 'Steppenwolf' planet of superEarth size would have enough geothermal heating, if insulated by an 8km thick ice layer, to hold a liquid ocean underground for billions of years even as it travels far from the warmth of any star. [published in 2011] https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1108
Ghana's Concentration Camps For Witches: "Fears of zombies, evil factories, possessed politicians, ambulances roaming at night stealing blood, Satanic murders, ritualistic killings for company profit, the international trade in body parts, digital curses and hexes, penis-snatching, killer mobile phones" https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/ghanas-concentration-camps-for-witches
Someone in Germany should make a monument consisting of a stone slab with a mark for each additional death caused by switching from nuclear to coal. Unfortunately it will have to be updated every year for many years. It could be called the Green Stone.