Links for 2023-07-17
Jailbreaking GPT-4's code interpreter https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KSroBnxCHodGmPPJ8/jailbreaking-gpt-4-s-code-interpreter
Rep. Dan Crenshaw talks to Eliezer Yudkowsky https://youtu.be/uX9xkYDSPKA
Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis https://www.theverge.com/23778745/demis-hassabis-google-deepmind-ai-alphafold-risks
“Our region-level vision-language model, termed as GPT4RoI, brings brand new conversational and interactive experience beyond image-level understanding.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03601
Conversational AI: "Air can perform full 5-40 minute long sales & customer service calls over the phone that sound like a human. And can perform actions autonomously across 5,000 unique applications. It’s kind of like having 100,000 sales & customer service reps at the tap of a button." https://twitter.com/CalebMaddix/status/1680198018899869697
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Is Taking a Nuclear-Energy Startup Public: Oklo, which is developing a small modular nuclear reactor, is valued around $850 million https://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-altman-backed-nuclear-startup-is-going-public-through-altmans-spac-cf1ae712 [https://archive.is/btSC3]
A window to the brain: ultrasound imaging of human neural activity through a permanent acoustic window https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.14.544094v1
Study (with over 22,000 subjects): people with higher IQ scores shoot firearms more accurately. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289623000491
“The increases in gun, non-domestic, and gang homicides were significantly associated with decreased police stops in the wake of the pandemic and Floyd protests.” https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2023.2235056
Chinese N-plants Releasing Water Containing Tritium at Levels 6.5 Times Higher than Planned Fukushima Discharge https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/world/asia-pacific/20230623-118053/
Ukraine links
1. US gives ‘green light’ to European countries to train Ukrainians on F-16 fighter jets, Biden official says https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/16/politics/us-ukraine-f16-jake-sullivan-cnntv/index.html
2. Kerch bridge linking Crimea and Russia has been attacked again resulting in significant structural damage https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1680832219391180800
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This is wrong on several levels:
1. The outcome has already changed. 74,443 km^2 were liberated in 3 successful counter-offensives last year.
2. There are numerous historical examples of the outgunned party winning (e.g. Vietnam or Afghanistan).
3. NATO countries, with their vastly larger and superior economies, could theoretically supply and produce enough weapons for Ukraine to win easily.
In any case, patriots would rather die fighting for freedom than be ruled by foreign aggressors. An attitude, apparently, that people like Musk cannot fathom. They would have surrendered to Carthage, the Ottoman Empire and Nazi Germany at the first sign of trouble. It's no wonder they lost the culture war.