AlphaDev, an AI system using reinforcement learning to discover enhanced computer science algorithms: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphadev-discovers-faster-sorting-algorithms
AlphaDev uncovered new and improved algorithms for ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด, a method for ordering data that led to improvements in the LLVM libc++ sorting library that were up to 70% faster for shorter sequences and about 1.7% faster for sequences exceeding 250,000 elements.ย
Rather than refine existing algorithms, AlphaDev started from scratch in a computerโs assembly instructions.
To train it, we built an โassembly gameโ where it's rewarded for sorting data efficiently - and wins by finding a correct, faster program...
We also tested whether AlphaDev could generalise to improve ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด, another fundamental computing algorithm.
When it was applied to the 9-16 bytes range of the hashing function, it discovered an algorithm that was 30% faster.
Google is updating Bard with a new technique called implicit code execution. Now it runs code in the background when it detects computational prompts, improving the accuracy of word and math problems by ~30%. https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-improved-reasoning-google-sheets-export/
Algorithmic Improvement Is Probably Faster Than Scaling Now https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CfpAXccrBvWpQw9xj/algorithmic-improvement-is-probably-faster-than-scaling-now
Transformative AGI by 2043 is <1% likely https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DgzdLzDGsqoRXhCK7/transformative-agi-by-2043-is-less-than-1-likely
Video-LLaMA: An Instruction-tuned Audio-Visual Language Model for Video Understanding https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02858
New 3D printing technique ready to advance manufacturing https://www.hw.ac.uk/news/articles/2023/new-3d-printing-technique-ready-to-advance.htm
Apple Vision Pro biofeedback with a user's brain by monitoring their eye behavior: โOne of the coolest results involved predicting a user was going to click on something before they actually did. That was a ton of work and something Iโm proud of. Your pupil reacts before you click in part because you expect something will happen after you click. So you can create biofeedback with a user's brain by monitoring their eye behavior, and redesigning the UI in real time to create more of this anticipatory pupil response. Itโs a crude brain computer interface via the eyes, but very coolโ https://twitter.com/sterlingcrispin/status/1665792422914453506 (The Apple Vision Pro is completely controlled by your eyes, hands and voice. There are no controllers. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/06/marques-brownlee-calls-apple-vision-pro-eye-tracking-as-its-best-feature.html)
Super Low-cost Smartphone Attachment Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Fingertips https://today.ucsd.edu/story/super-low-cost-smartphone-attachment-brings-blood-pressure-monitoring-to-your-fingertips
The United States of Amazon: The Day Amazon Sent the FBI to Take My Familyโs Bank Accounts https://medium.com/@amy_riveter/the-united-states-of-amazon-the-day-amazon-sent-the-fbi-to-take-my-familys-bank-accounts-b5172b4ddda3
"China โฆ controls 77% of the worldโs battery manufacturing capacity, & last year nearly 60% of global electric vehicle sales were in China. The country produces more than 80% of the worldโs solar panels" [The New York Times] https://archive.is/1Hdhu
โDr, David Cowie convinced salt companies to add iodine. As a result, IQ went up 15 points in much of the US! And income went up in those areas by 11%!โ https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1663755242767372290
A group of NATO countries may be willing to put troops on the ground in Ukraine if member states including the US do not provide tangible security guarantees to Kyiv https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/07/nato-members-may-send-troops-to-ukraine-warns-former-alliance-chief
Dozens Of Dutch F-16s Were Just Freed Up Potentially For Ukraine https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/dozens-of-dutch-f-16s-were-just-freed-up-potentially-for-ukraine
Muslims fighting Woke+Antifa in Montgomery County, Maryland https://twitter.com/AsraNomani/status/1666267708332077058
New image of over 45,000 galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/early-universe-crackled-with-bursts-of-star-formation-webb-shows
You can download a full-resolution image (132 MB, over 12,000 x 8,000 pixels) here: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/127/01H1Q1CGJD51CDJTK2NHJWD06M
My take on Putin as a Solzhenitsyn++ https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/bookending-worlds