Links for 2023-05-06
Artificial neurons mimic complex brain abilities for next-generation AI computing: “Researchers have created atomically thin artificial neurons capable of processing both light and electric signals for computing. The material enables the simultaneous existence of separate feedforward and feedback paths within a neural network, boosting the ability to solve complex problems.” https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-05-05-artificial-neurons-mimic-complex-brain-abilities-next-generation-ai-computing
StarCoder is a 15B LLM for code with 8k context and trained only on permissive data in 80+ programming languages. It can be prompted to reach 40% pass@1 on HumanEval and act as a Tech Assistant. StarCoder outperforms every model that is fine-tuned on Python... https://huggingface.co/bigcode (thread: https://twitter.com/BigCodeProject/status/1654174941976068119)
IndoorSim-to-OutdoorReal: Learning to Navigate Outdoors without any Outdoor Experience https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/05/indoorsim-to-outdoorreal-learning-to.html
Towards Complex Reasoning: the Polaris of Large Language Models https://yaofu.notion.site/Towards-Complex-Reasoning-the-Polaris-of-Large-Language-Models-c2b4a51355b44764975f88e6a42d4e75
LinkedIn And DeepMind’s Co-Founders Launch ChatGPT Rival ‘Pi’ With Higher Emotional Intelligence https://heypi.com/talk
AutoML-GPT: Automatic Machine Learning with GPT https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02499
Tracking through Containers and Occluders in the Wild https://tcow.cs.columbia.edu/
4 minutes to understand why the human species might go extinct and why if we race towards AGI, everyone will lose. https://youtu.be/FAbsoxQtUwM
Biden to AI execs: "What you're doing has enormous potential and enormous danger. I know you understand that, and I hope you can educate us as to what you think is most needed to protect society, as well as to the advancement... This is really, really important." https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1654237472065302528
Does the language/s you speak shape how you hear music? Speakers of tonal languages hear melodies and rhythms differently to non-tonal speakers—robust across ½-million speakers of 54 languages! https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00387-1
Jellyfish eyes. For an animal lacking brain, it has impressive eye clusters. The visual system of box jellyfish comprises a total of 24 eyes. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698908000199
A no-cloning theorem for classical states? https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/109994594174852257
Understanding a wide range of algorithms helps in becoming a better problem solver with code. This amazing repo has 100s of implemented algorithms using Python. Implementations range from data structures to compression to machine learning algorithms. https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python
‘Spectacular’ new find: Roman military camps in desert found by Oxford archaeologists using Google Earth https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-04-27-spectacular-new-find-roman-military-camps-desert-found-oxford-archaeologists-using
A male does not acquire the impulse control level of a 10 year-old female until around the age of 25. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-014-0116-9
From 2019: https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/18/sam-altmans-leap-of-faith/
But Altman not only pushed back on the idea the idea that “capped profit” is a bit of marketing brilliance, he doubled down on why it makes sense. Specifically, he said that the opportunity with artificial general intelligence is so incomprehensibly enormous that if OpenAI manages to crack this particular nut, it could “maybe capture the light cone of all future value in the universe, and that’s for sure not okay for one group of investors to have.”
As far as we can tell, the strength of the gravitational field fluctuations in the general theory of relativity eventually increases at even shorter distances to the extent that they have an infinite effect. This, of course, is impossible.
Many physicists have worked very hard to cure this absurd feature of general relativity, but I do not think it can be cured; I think that general relativity is wrong as a description of gravitation on scales of the order of 10⁻³³ centimeters and below. Since that is twenty orders of magnitude smaller than the nucleus of the atom, it is not an urgent problem for most concerns in physics.
— Steven Weinberg