Links for 2023-05-18
Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air. Privacy Experts Are Worried. [The New York Times] https://archive.is/gbqJk
Google’s PaLM 2 specs leaked: 3.6 trillion tokens and 340 billion parameters (cf. previous version: 780 billion tokens and 540 billion parameters). https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/16/googles-palm-2-uses-nearly-five-times-more-text-data-than-predecessor.html
Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09617
LLMs being deployed to defense/military at a rapid pace: “As a longtime leader in AI, I am proud to be delivering this world-changing capability to the United States government with Donovan - the first LLM deployed on a classified network for the XVIII Airborne Corps…” https://scale.com/blog/scale-ceo-letter-donovan-egp
LLMs understand your preferences: “through fine-tuning, LLMs achieve comparable or even better performance with only a small fraction of the training data, demonstrating their potential through data efficiency.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06474
VideoChat, an end-to-end chat-centric video understanding system https://vchat.opengvlab.com/
Domain Incremental Lifelong Learning in an Open World https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06555
“I’ve Never Seen Something That Eradicates a Tumor Like This” – New Therapeutic Permanently Eliminates Gastric Cancer https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/03/antibody-fragment-nanoparticle-therapeutic-eradicates-cancer
French Parliament passes law to accelerate construction of new nuclear reactors https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2023/05/17/french-government-passes-bill-to-accelerate-the-construction-of-new-nuclear-reactors_6026936_19.html
Electricity Prices Plunge By 75% As Finland Opens New Nuclear Power Plant https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Electricity-Prices-Plunge-By-75-As-Finland-Opens-New-Nuclear-Power-Plant.html
Arnold Schwarzenegger: “We can no longer accept years of environmental review, thousand-page reports, and lawsuit after lawsuit keeping us from building. We have to build, build, build.” https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/05/16/arnold-schwarzenegger-environmental-movement-embrace-building-green-energy-future/70218062007/
Ukrainian counterattack in the Bakhmut area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc5o8YELpcI (see also: https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1658862542502895617 and https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1658930616589590529)