Links for 2023-07-02
Genes - brain structure - IQ are linked. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.26286
Mark Milley says tech “is causing the most significant fundamental change in the character of war ever recorded in history…in the next 10-15 years, we're likely to see that at least third of the advanced industrial militaries of the world likely will be robotic…” https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3446709/milley-makes-case-for-rules-based-order-deterrence-in-new-era/
We now have a single-cell-resolution model of the brain's hippocampus https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-full-scale-3d-human-hippocampus.html
“A prediction market trader can predict in two and a half minutes of skimming whether a paper is likely to replicate. But academics apparently can't tell; whether a paper replicates has little bearing on its number of citations.” https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/
A conversation about what happens to the economy when intelligence becomes too cheap to meter. https://asteriskmag.com/issues/03/the-great-inflection-a-debate-about-ai-and-explosive-growth
Yoshua Bengio' FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/06/24/faq-on-catastrophic-ai-risks/
European companies claim the EU’s AI Act could ‘jeopardise technological sovereignty’ https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779611/eu-ai-act-open-letter-artificial-intelligence-regulation-renault-siemens
MotionGPT: Human Motion as a Foreign Language https://arxiv.org/abs//2306.14795
Pretraining Transformers on Decision-Making Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14892
Evidence that the aesthetic preference for Hogarth’s Line of Beauty is an evolutionary by-product https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31175-w
Dolphin moms use ‘“baby talk” with their calves https://www.science.org/content/article/dolphin-moms-use-baby-talk-their-calves [https://archive.is/DB0Za]
A very long video of the 47th mechanized brigade. Pushing through Russian defense in the Zaporizhzia region. The video shows two days of assault. https://youtu.be/bk5OG6JYmfI