Links for 2023-08-23
“Ilya Sutskever explains how Kolmogorov complexity well-defines unsupervised learning and LLMs are approximations thereof.” https://twitter.com/mhutter42/status/1691866331602186466 (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKMuA_TVz3A)
Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09687
“Introducing SeamlessM4T, the first all-in-one, multilingual multimodal translation model: This single model can perform tasks across speech-to-text, speech-to-speech, text-to-text translation & speech recognition for up to 100 languages depending on the task.” https://ai.meta.com/blog/seamless-m4t/
“I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning it on Bad AI-Generated Images” https://minimaxir.com/2023/08/stable-diffusion-xl-wrong/
Steven Wolfram on AI Alignment https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/osPFESHQKLa2X3adb/steven-wolfram-on-ai-alignment
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708 (Gary Marcus: “my p(doom) has gone up today, with up with the publication of the new arxiv on consciousness that is circulating today.”)
"Active users spend on average over 2 hours daily interacting with our AI." https://blog.character.ai/character-ai/
CoDeF: Content Deformation Fields for Temporally Consistent Video Processing https://qiuyu96.github.io/CoDeF/
Anti-obesity drug improves associative learning in people with obesity https://www.mpg.de/20745738/0815-neur-anti-obesity-drug-improves-associative-learning-in-people-with-obesity-153735-x
Arithmetic has a biological origin – it’s an expression in symbols of the ‘deep structure’ of our perception https://theconversation.com/arithmetic-has-a-biological-origin-its-an-expression-in-symbols-of-the-deep-structure-of-our-perception-211337
David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implications https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/david-wallace-many-worlds-theory-of-quantum-mechanics/
The impact of rare protein coding genetic variation on adult cognitive function https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-023-01398-8
"The male strangers who approach you are loaded with confidence, but they are utterly unrepresentative of their kind. The typical guy, no matter how otherwise awesome, is painfully shy because he expects rejection." https://betonit.substack.com/p/hes-the-one
"Humans can change their preferences for long- and short-term relationships within a short space of time ... these changes can be initiated by priming participants with evolutionarily relevant stimuli" https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109051381730017X
“Ghouta 2013 chemical weapons attack is by far the single most-documented incident in Syria with 564 videos. At the Syrian Archive we developed the methodology, examined, archived and made the dataset public to mark the 10th anniversary of this attack” https://syrianarchive.org/en/datasets/chemical-weapons/ghouta/findings
Ukraine links:
This is the sixth straight night of drone attacks on Russia’s capital. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1694210678628696518
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“Following #Ukraine’s systematic attacks on key infrastructure and supply lines to Crimea, #Russia is beginning to show signs its working...Yesterday Ru gov asked hotels etc to report food and fuel stocks” https://twitter.com/CovertShores/status/1694260402022912073
Russia may annex Georgian breakaway regions -Medvedev https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-may-annex-georgian-breakaway-regions-medvedev-2023-08-22/
“Ukraine released footage from the tests of its new unmanned underwater vehicle, called "Marichka" ("Марічка"). According to available information, this UUV has the range of over 1,000km. It can perform strike, transport or reconnaissance missions.” https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/1694092627275129266
“Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces from the 92nd Mechanized Brigade hit a Russian 2S4 Tyulpan 240mm self-propelled heavy mortar with an FPV loitering munition, destroying it.” https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1694127232573149379
The GOP’s Man in Kyiv Has a Message for Ukraine Skeptics: “This is the best use of foreign aid I have ever seen. Ukraine is getting second-hand weapons — much headed to the trash heap — and they’re winning.” https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/13/ukraine-capitol-hill-steven-moore-00108134
The one most important thing for Ukraine’s counteroffensive https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/08/23/the-one-most-important-thing-for-ukraines-counteroffensive/