Douglas Hofstadter on the rate of AI progress and his collapsing belief system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfXxzAVtdpU&t=1764s
Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieve https://thegradient.pub/why-transformative-artificial-intelligence-is-really-really-hard-to-achieve/
“Nemo AI is capable of 3D environment awareness, long-term memory, and real-time learning” https://www.ranmo.me/blog/title-digital-companionship
CLIPA-v2: Scaling CLIP Training with 81.1% Zero-shot ImageNet Accuracy within a $10,000 Budget; An Extra $4,000 Unlocks 81.8% Accuracy https://arxiv.org/abs//2306.15658
DreamDiffusion: Generating High-Quality Images from Brain EEG Signals https://arxiv.org/abs//2306.16934
Sound reconstruction from human brain activity via a generative model with brain-like auditory features https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11629
Automatic Error Correction for LLMs https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16564
“We find that the pretrained transformer can be used to solve a range of RL problems in-context, exhibiting both exploration online and conservatism offline, despite not being explicitly trained to do so. The model also generalizes beyond the pretraining distribution to new tasks and automatically adapts its decision-making strategies to unknown structure.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14892
International team reports powerful tool for studying, tuning atomically thin materials https://news.mit.edu/2023/powerful-tool-studying-tuning-atomically-thin-materials-0627
A leaky integrate-and-fire computational model based on the connectome of the entire adult Drosophila brain reveals insights into sensorimotor processing https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37205514/ (read more: “We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses!” https://twitter.com/sdorkenw/status/1674859033076072448)
C elegans fully open: The complete neuronal input-output functions project https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fxqr-GP0P6a9VrZKdPXqbjSHJlDmTL6aVKJeXDdq5Yg/edit
“…can we find set theory lurking in linear algebra? That is, starting from the category of vector spaces, can we recognize the category of sets embedded in it? Yes we can!” https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2023/06/grothendieckgaloisbrauer_theor.html
Which university major is the smartest? A study of composite GRE scores by Ph.D. program subjects found that physicists were the smartest, followed by engineers and mathematicians: https://gwern.net/doc/iq/2002-templer.pdf
People get PhDs in early childhood education? That seems to be an outlier in the dataset