Links for 2023-05-19
LLM Agents Can Autonomously Improve in Negotiation from AI Criticism https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10142
AI-powered coding, free of charge with Colab https://blog.google/technology/developers/google-colab-ai-coding-features/
AI threatens humanity’s future, 61% of Americans say: Reuters/Ipsos poll http://reut.rs/3oiuWk6
People are trying to claim real videos are deepfakes. The courts are not amused https://www.npr.org/2023/05/08/1174132413/people-are-trying-to-claim-real-videos-are-deepfakes-the-courts-are-not-amused
“I've been using github copilot for a while now to write philosophy and logic texts.” https://www.umsu.de/blog/2023/786
Sandra Scarr recounts the "scary era" of the late-60s and 70s when behavioral geneticists were physically attacked and threatened by leftwing activists for conducting scientific research because they believed that "evolution applies to human behavior." https://twitter.com/PaoloShirasi/status/1656700589441527810
“Teen suicides plummeted in March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began in the U.S... returning from online to in-person schooling was associated with a 12-to-18 percent increase teen suicides.” https://www.nber.org/papers/w30795
"people attributed harming animals most frequently to criminals, then to God-believers, and least often to nonbelievers … people choose a God-believer over an atheist for a job involving animal harm" https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-71934-002
Why don't we define "imaginary" numbers for every "impossibility"? https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/259584/why-dont-we-define-imaginary-numbers-for-every-impossibility
Solar-Powered Balloons Detect Mysterious Sounds of Unknown Origins in Earth’s Stratosphere https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/05/model-this-upper-atmospheric-infrasound.html
Greece’s ‘greatest turnround’: from junk to investment grade [Financial Times] https://archive.is/Te2w9
“Seven of the world’s largest semiconductor makers have set out plans to increase manufacturing and deepen tech partnerships in Japan as western allies step up efforts to reshape the global chip supply chain amid rising tensions with China.” [Financial Times] https://archive.is/fdywZ
“Prigozhin's mouthpiece channel admin GREY ZONE watches a video by the 3rd Assault brigade assaulting a Russian defensive position near Bakhmut which resulted in 300m of progress in 16 minutes. Unable to understand how the enemy [Ukrainians] can calmly send vehicles and infantry to walk along the woodline, meanwhile if Russians tried the same anywhere, they'd be burned on the approach.” https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1659197340111220738