Lead Product Manager at Google DeepMind underestimates LLM reasoning abilities. https://twitter.com/liron/status/1698103911297761356
One Minute Every Moment: Human working memory is about 2016 bits of information that would take about one minute to communicate in natural language. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D97xnoRr6BHzo5HvQ/one-minute-every-moment
Scaling Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with AI Feedback: RLAIF can produce comparable improvements to RLHF without depending on human annotators https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00267
LLaSM: Large Language and Speech Model https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15930
Smarter AI: Choosing the Best Path to Optimal Deep Learning https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40566-y
“28.9% efficiency for perovskite silicon tandem solar cell with stable perovskite absorber with high band gap. Efficiency is rapidly increasing.” https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/business-areas/photovoltaics/perovskite-and-organic-photovoltaics/perovskite-silicon-tandem-photovoltaics.html
A specific compound, AOH1996, appears to selectively kill cancer cells without side effect https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/997141
“Why do things smell the way they do? I'm pleased to announce the publication of our work on the fundamental connection between olfaction and nature's metabolome.” https://elifesciences.org/articles/82502
“Thrilled that my essay on the perception of time is finally published. In it, I challenge the idea that animals explicitly estimate the duration of ~second-long intervals internally using neuronal representations of time.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763423002816
“women have a higher acceptance rate of wife beating than men in Sub-Saharan Africa.” (44% vs. 25%; N = 123,117 vs. 75,975) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-023-02611-w
Growing share of Americans favor more nuclear power https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/18/growing-share-of-americans-favor-more-nuclear-power/
The Netherlands is set to become the sole European country that will operate tactical ballistic missiles and air-launched, ship-launched, and submarine-launched cruise missiles. https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2023/08/high-on-defence-listing-dutch-arms.html
"US credibility was destroyed by Obama refusing to enforce his own red line on WMD use by Assad. This strike by the Trump Admin & 🇬🇧+🇫🇷 started the rebuilding process and has since been successful at deterring 🇷🇺 WMD use." https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1698379185771729065
Here's a reminder for all the people who keep repeating the claim that large language models can't possibly reason because they "JUST" do next token prediction: https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1615400125760950278
Of course, this doesn't mean that current machine learning models will produce artificial general intelligence in practice, but the objection is theoretically flawed.
Ukraine links:
1. Kremlin Silent on Chinese Map Claiming Part of Russia's Territory https://www.newsweek.com/russia-china-kremlin-territory-1823677
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Yeah, China won