Links for 2023-06-16
Carl Shulman - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kRg-ZP1vQc
Using Anthropic's Claude LLM with its 100K context limit to create a fully-playable RPG in 1 day https://twitter.com/jradoff/status/1668313053094346755
Text-Guided Video-to-Video https://anonymous-31415926.github.io/
Oracle is betting its AI future on a company called Cohere. Here's why this little-known startup is becoming OpenAI's chief rival. https://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-chooses-cohere-ai-startup-best-alternative-openai-2023-6
Mount Sinai Researchers Use New Deep Learning Approach to Enable Analysis of Electrocardiograms as Language https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2023/mount-sinai-researchers-use-new-deep-learning-approach-to-enable-analysis-of-electrocardiograms-as-language
AI outperformed standard risk model for predicting breast cancer https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/990740
UN Secretary General recognizes AI extinction risk, calls for coordination https://twitter.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1669281333753856001
42% of CEOs say AI could destroy humanity in five to ten years https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/14/business/artificial-intelligence-ceos-warning
High-throughput printing of combinatorial materials from aerosols https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05898-9
Brain-wide neural recordings in mice navigating physical spaces enabled by a cranial exoskeleton https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.04.543578v1
Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Is Habitable, Confirms Breakthrough Study https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d99qz/saturns-moon-enceladus-is-habitable-confirms-breakthrough-study
Crocodile found to have made herself pregnant https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65834167
Enforcers of China’s One-Child Policy Are Now Cajoling People to Have Three [Wall Street Journal] https://archive.is/KyVpb
First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources https://public.substack.com/p/first-people-sickened-by-covid-19
Preliminary analysis of a video that may show an attack on Russian troops. Russian sources claim that the Ukrainian attack killed more than 100 Russian soldiers and wounded a similar number. The HIMARS warhead can cover up to "half a square mile of land in a single salvo" with 180,000 tungsten steel BB sized balls. https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1669497556336771075
The current bottleneck is human drone pilots. This will soon be overcome by AI.
Countries that want to survive future conflicts must do the following immediately:
1. Develop ways to cheaply mass produce small kamikaze drones. For example, a Manhattan Project for new 3D printing technologies.
2. Develop and mass-produce cheap ML chips and train machine learning models to enable onboard/offline detection and targeting. Swarming algorithms will also become critical and need to be developed.
3. Develop cost-effective defenses against drones, such as shotgun armor, nets, cages, and mass production of decoys that can confuse the onboard AI.
Countries that cannot do this will need to form coalitions that can.