Links for 2023-05-14
How to have Polygenically Screened Children https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yT22RcWrxZcXyGjsA/how-to-have-polygenically-screened-children
Big law firms are experimenting with artificial intelligence tools that can handle the drudgery of drafting documents and reading contracts [Wall Street Journal] https://archive.is/fkSD2
Google’s new universal translator. https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/universal-translator-dubs-and-lip-syncs-speakers-but-google-warns-against-misuse/
“IBM Watson is back (alias Dromedary) and it beats GPT-4 at TruthfulQA-MC. It’s a variant of Constitutional AI, with LLaMa-65B as a base model and *no RLHF* or distillation from RLHF’d models. This seems good to me and may avoid the stubborn perverse-instantiation problems with RLHF.” https://github.com/IBM/Dromedary
Plan-and-Execute Agents https://blog.langchain.dev/plan-and-execute-agents/
PrivateGPT: You can ingest documents and ask questions without an internet connection! 100% private, no data leaves your execution environment at any point! https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT (uses a local LLM based on GPT4All-J or LlamaCpp)
An artificially structured argument for expecting AGI ruin https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QzkTfj4HGpLEdNjXX/an-artificially-structured-argument-for-expecting-agi-ruin
“OpenAI’s Sam Altman believes many jobs will soon vanish but UBI will be the solution. Other visions of the future are less rosy” https://thewalrus.ca/will-universal-basic-income-save-us-from-ai/
‘We shouldn’t regulate AI until we see meaningful harm’: Microsoft chief economist to WEF https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/shouldnt-regulate-ai-meaningful-harm-microsoft-wef/
Microsoft/GitHub Copilot Chat's confidential system Prompt: "You must refuse to discuss life, existence or sentience." https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aMFmvbFnKYRxZhD28/microsoft-github-copilot-chat-s-confidential-system-prompt
The Global Economic Disruptions from a Taiwan Conflict https://rhg.com/research/taiwan-economic-disruptions/
In a large longitudinal study on 23,258 French students, a wide range of contextual and individual factors on academic performance were examined, and non-verbal IQ was found to be "by far the best predictor" of achievement. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289618300515
Chicxulub asteroid: 9,800,000 Tsar Bombas at 50 Megatons each; released 400 billion tons of SO2+H2O and 500 billion tons of CO2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11541145/
Russia is still Ukraine's largest supplier of heavy weapons systems, a fact that is worthy of note: https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html?m=1
Regular exposure to consistently high levels of noise is widely believed to have many negative health effects. Noise levels as low as 50 dB at night are thought to cause cardiovascular health problems.
But in the rainforest at night, ambient noise levels are as high as 60-65 dB. Has anyone looked at whether this noise is affecting the people who live there? For example, do they sleep worse than people in quieter regions?