Links for 2023-08-11
Inflection.ai is a major AGI lab https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Wc5BYFfzuLzepQjCq/inflection-ai-is-a-major-agi-lab
Gwern: why hasn’t AI-generated music taken off in the same way as AI-generated art or AI-generated text? He thinks it’s a combination of copyright, low demand, and technical difficulty https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-284/comment/18354821
The famed Stanford Smallville is officially open-source: 25 AI agents inhabit a digital Westworld, unaware that they are living in a simulation. They go to work, gossip, organize socials, make new friends, and even fall in love. Each has unique personality and backstory. https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents
“Separate Anything Audio Model - AudioSep! Showcasing powerful separation capabilities & impressive zero-shot generalization across tasks: audio event & musical instrument separation and speech enhancement!” https://audio-agi.github.io/Separate-Anything-You-Describe/
Ketamine: WD-40 for the Bayesian brain https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2023-08-01-ketamine.html
“So one of the questions most fusion startups are going to have to answer is where do you get tritium to keep sustaining the reaction?” –Michael Koziol https://spectrum.ieee.org/fusion-is-having-a-moment
HADAR: New Method Allows AI To See Through Pitch Darkness Like Broad Daylight https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2023/Q3/purdue-thermal-imaging-innovation-allows-ai-to-see-through-pitch-darkness-like-broad-daylight.html
“The study comparing data from patients who had their thymus removed with those who had not found that thymectomy patients had a nearly threefold higher risk of death from a variety of causes, including a twofold higher risk of cancer and a more modest increase in autoimmune diseases.” https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/08/turns-out-lowly-thymus-may-be-saving-your-life/
“I learned a bit about fracking today and even relative to my prior expectation holy cow does it sound like sorcery.” https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1685460287129063424
Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (1945) https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/08/transcript-of-taped-conversations-among-german-nuclear-physicists-1945.html
About half of the Chinese people are gamers: "China’s video game player population has grown to a record of 668 million, a government-run game industry association said" https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2023/07/29/video-game-player-population-grows-to-668-million
Ukraine links:
The Battle of Hostomel Airport: A Key Moment in Russia’s Defeat in Kyiv https://warontherocks.com/2023/08/the-battle-of-hostomel-airport-a-key-moment-in-russias-defeat-in-kyiv/
Moscow is again being attacked by drones this morning: 1. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1689913569481981952 2. https://twitter.com/ian_matveev/status/1689930383188443136
“A photo has been leaked of the damage caused to the hull of the Russian Project 775 landing ship "Olengorsky Gornyak" as a result of a Ukrainian USV attack in the early morning of August 4.” https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/1689762173780738049
“Footage of Russian oil tanker SIG with visible damage to the side after it was hit by a Ukrainian naval drone.” https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1689697251503861761
“Russia is now clearly making a target of popular hotels/hangouts for journalists near the frontlines Ukraine.” https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1689690073556529157
The Biden Admin is unfreezing $6b in Iranian assets. Money that will be used to oppress the Iranian people, and supply Russia & Hezbollah with weapons to kill Ukrainian & Israeli civilians. https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/us-agrees-to-prisoner-swap-with-iran-plus-6-billion/