Links for 2023-07-04
A.I. Is Coming for Mathematics, Too https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/science/ai-mathematics-machine-learning.html [https://archive.is/rxDmp]
Eight AI Startups Winning the Race for Tech Talent https://medium.com/lightspeed-venture-partners/eight-ai-startups-winning-the-race-for-tech-talent-571a18b03642
Intel and Nvidia Square Off in GPT-3 Time Trials https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-language-models-training-benchmark
Towards Language Models That Can See: Computer Vision Through the LENS of Natural Language — Finds that the LLMs with LENS perform highly competitively with much bigger and much more sophisticated systems, without any multimodal training whatsoever. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16410
AI gains momentum in core financial services functions https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/28/1075552/ai-gains-momentum-in-core-financial-services-functions/ [https://archive.is/vXea4]
"China’s DJI Mavic 3, used by both Russia and Ukraine for surveillance and for delivering bombs, goes for around US $2,000. You can get 55,000 of them for the price of a single F-35." https://spectrum.ieee.org/drone-warfare-ukraine
Humans have used enough groundwater to shift the earth’s tilt. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/06/27/groundwater-use-planet-earth-tilt/ [https://archive.is/rqi3U]
Ninth Dedekind number discovered: Scientists from Paderborn and Leuven solve long-known problem in mathematics https://www.uni-paderborn.de/en/news-item/123917
Molecular electronics in 2023 https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/07/molecular-electronics-in-2023.html
Vietnam bans 'Barbie' movie over South China Sea map: “Barbie is the latest movie to be banned in Vietnam for depicting China's controversial nine-dash line, which was repudiated in an international arbitration ruling by a court in The Hague in 2016. China refuses to recognize the ruling” https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/vietnam-bans-barbie-movie-over-south-china-sea-map-2023-07-03/
Ukrainian forces have advanced far enough along the axis from Mala Tokmachka through Robotyne to Tokmak that it’s safe for recovery teams to work. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/07/02/ukrainian-engineers-are-recovering-the-25-vehicles-ukraine-lost-in-a-russian-minefield-starting-with-an-american-made-m-2/