Links for 2023-06-30
China’s Baidu claims its Ernie Bot beats ChatGPT on key tests as A.I. race heats up https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/27/baidu-claims-its-ernie-bot-beats-openais-chatgpt-on-key-ai-tests.html
Inflection has raised $1.3 billion and is building the world’s largest AI cluster comprising 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. https://inflection.ai/inflection-ai-announces-1-3-billion-of-funding
Introducing RoboCook, our new particle-based world modeling framework for dumpling making, a highly complicated long-horizon manipulation task using 15 tools. https://hshi74.github.io/robocook
YouTube is getting AI-powered dubbing https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/22/23769881/youtube-ai-dubbing-aloud
Harvard is using AI to teach in 2023 https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/6/21/cs50-artificial-intelligence/
Stable Diffusion XL - Free text-to-image generation by Stability. https://clipdrop.co/stable-diffusion
Conversation with Marc Andreessen about the positive role of AI and technology in the recent history and future of human civilization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hxeDjAxvJ8 (see also: Why AI Will Save the World https://a16z.com/2023/06/06/ai-will-save-the-world/)
Greg Clark documents the inheritance of social status in a dataset of 422,374 people born in England between 1600 to 2022. Clark's modeling implies a very high (0.57) correlation between spouses' underlying genetic components affecting social status. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300926120
Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/R9nM8GuDWBubRKA7v/will-the-growing-deer-prion-epidemic-spread-to-humans-why
An animated depiction of the development of Fourier analysis. https://youtu.be/B1J6Ou4q8vE
“Today, at the corner of Campus Drive and Mannakee Street, in Montgomery County, Maryland, woke intersectionalism came to die. Today, June 27, about 1,000 Arab Muslims, Ethiopian Christians, Peruvian Catholics and so many other brown and black immigrant families outflanked the dozen or so woke white activists who showed up to fight the efforts of parents to opt their kids out of age-inappropriate sexual content in schools.” https://twitter.com/AsraNomani/status/1673914342016708614