Links for 2023-05-17
I think you have said, in fact, and I'm gonna quote, 'Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.' You may have had in mind the effect on jobs.
— Senator addressing Sam Altman (he dodged the question)
Larger language models do in-context learning differently: “…large language models can learn to override prior knowledge when presented with enough flipped labels, and that this ability emerges with model scale.” https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/05/larger-language-models-do-in-context.html
New Harvard-Developed AI Predicts Future Pancreatic Cancer Up to Three Years Before Diagnosis https://hms.harvard.edu/news/ai-predicts-future-pancreatic-cancer
OpenAI CEO tells Congress to require licenses for advanced artificial intelligence https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/16/ceo-openai-chatgpt-ai-tech-regulations
98% of respondents somewhat or strongly agreed that AGI labs should conduct pre-deployment risk assessments, dangerous capabilities evaluations, third-party model audits, safety restrictions on model usage, and red teaming. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07153
RL4F: Generating Natural Language Feedback with Reinforcement Learning for Repairing Model Outputs https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08844
AI2 is developing a large language model optimized for science https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/11/ai2-is-developing-a-large-language-model-optimized-for-science/
SAP and Microsoft to Deepen Collaboration on Generative AI in Recruiting https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2023-05-15/sap-and-microsoft-to-deepen-collaboration-on-generative-ai-in-recruiting
Buffet dumps last of TSMC stock over potential China invasion of Taiwan https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/05/16/investing/berkshire-hathaway-taiwan-tsmc-stock-exit-hnk-intl/index.html
A debunking of “King Leopold’s Ghost”? https://www.theamericanconservative.com/king-hochschilds-hoax/
J. Robert Oppenheimer's grandson: "We must get over our cognitive and political bias: Nuclear energy is necessary and safe, and not the same as nuclear weapons" https://time.com/6278789/nuclear-energy-moment-has-come/
Mitigate 6% of the sea level rise from global warming by flooding the Qattara Sea in Egypt, other bonus wildlife benefits to follow. https://twitter.com/arpitrage/status/1656398779338092545
Britain to send Ukraine suicide drones with twice the range of Himars [The Telegraph] https://archive.is/CGxv2
Bucha one year ago versus today
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bucha
See also this video of the rebuilding process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50KHuqn4Xy4
Plutonium is relatively safe to handle: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-most-dangerous-substance-known-to-man
In 1950, Manhattan Project doctors injected 18 people, ages 4–69, with plutonium without their knowledge. The researchers made every effort to maximize the damage. The subjects were injected directly into their bloodstream with highly soluble plutonium nitrate. All these people had been diagnosed with terminal disease. Eight of the 18 died within two years of the injection, all from their preexisting illness or cardiac failure. None died from the plutonium.
One of the involuntary subjects was Albert Stevens, a 58-year-old house painter. Stevens had been misdiagnosed. His terminal stomach cancer turned out to be an operable ulcer. Stevens died at the age of 79 of heart failure, never knowing he had been injected.