Links for 2023-05-24
Yoshua Bengio: How Rogue AIs may Arise https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8kHgaLYamxQdE2zk7/yoshua-bengio-how-rogue-ais-may-arise
“Announcing, Windows Copilot. Integrating the power of Bing Chat across all of Windows and all your apps.” https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/05/23/bringing-the-power-of-ai-to-windows-11-unlocking-a-new-era-of-productivity-for-customers-and-developers-with-windows-copilot-and-dev-home/
Food delivery by drone is just part of daily life in Shenzhen https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/23/1073500/drone-food-delivery-shenzhen-meituan/
Organoid intelligence: biocomputing to exploit the 10^6 efficiency advantage of brains over computers. Unlocking this means developing complex 3D neuronal cultures and learning how to communicate with them. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2023.1017235
Printing specific model architectures on a chip. Claims 100x speedup over GPUs. https://etched.ai/
Hardware implementation of digital memcomputing on small-size FPGAs [New Scientist] https://archive.is/th4wJ
RecurrentGPT: Interactive Generation of (Arbitrarily) Long Text https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13304
LM vs LM: Detecting Factual Errors via Cross Examination https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13281
Making neural networks more modular, sparse and interpretable by penalizing neuron length. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08746
It looks like there is 10x improvement in AI every year (4.2x from growth in training compute, and 2.5x from algo improvements). https://epochai.org/trends
Any-to-Any Generation via Composable Diffusion https://codi-gen.github.io/
Conjecture internal survey: AGI timelines and probability of human extinction from advanced AI https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kygEPBDrGGoM8rz9a/conjecture-internal-survey-agi-timelines-and-probability-of
New Study Shows Noninvasive Brain Imaging Can Distinguish Among Hand Gestures https://today.ucsd.edu/story/new-study-shows-noninvasive-brain-imaging-can-distinguish-among-hand-gestures
“'Europe … is unlikely to become a global hub of innovation.' … Europe’s risk-averse culture and preference for meticulously detailed and highly precautionary regulatory regimes were repeatedly cited as factors." https://medium.com/@AdamThierer/gdrp-european-innovation-culture-what-the-economic-evidence-shows-b19d2309de07
"We report strong evidence of familial clustering of sexual offending, primarily accounted for by genes rather than shared environmental influences." https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/44/2/713/753089