Links for 2023-09-07
“The former CEO of Google on CNN talking about paperclips, bio-engineered pathogens, open-source vs closed-source, and recursive self-improvement being less than 5 years away.” https://twitter.com/mezaoptimizer/status/1698775296269336899
“It's an unspoken fact that freely moving lab mice are not really freely moving. We came up with a method to change this. This system uses an extremely thin tether that streams a ton of data but keeps behavior intact. Through a lot of engineering it also provides sub-ms closed-loop latencies, 3D-tracking and more. This is all built on an open hardware standard.” https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.30.554672v1
Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66715669
Large language models converge toward human-like concept organization https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edBz8knyMcgT2Siy9/linkpost-large-language-models-converge-toward-human-like
AI 'nose' predicts smells from molecular structures https://phys.org/news/2023-09-ai-nose-molecular.html
Robotaxis hit the accelerator in growing list of cities nationwide https://www.axios.com/2023/08/29/cities-testing-self-driving-driverless-taxis-robotaxi-waymo
Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers? https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/are-self-driving-cars-already-safer-than-human-drivers/
Analog and digital: The best of both worlds in one energy-efficient system https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1000126
Transposon Inhibition and Its Impact on Longevity https://twitter.com/MikhailBatin/status/1698104220543848916
Armenia's Defense Ministry announces a joint exercise with the U.S. from Sept. 11 to 20 https://mil.am/en/news/11774
Ukraine links:
“The disconnect of the NATO training leads to a brigade being unprepared on the battlefield. Specifically, the lack of UAV, defensive, mine awareness, and EOD training has led to unnecessary casualties on the battlefield.” https://twitter.com/Teoyaomiquu/status/1699193558685618235
“The European Defence Agency (EDA) on Tuesday (5 September) signed eight contracts with European industry for the joint procurement of 155mm ammunition for Ukraine in the first-ever move to use the bloc to purchase weapons collectively.“ https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/news/eu-defence-agency-signs-first-joint-procurement-ammunition-deals-for-ukraine/
Ukrainian drones hit the Russian HQs of the Southern Military District in Rostov on Don https://twitter.com/kromark/status/1699662392848699825
Visually confirmed Russian vs. Ukrainian losses over the past two days via Andrew: Russians lost 4x as much equipment. https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1699604863233958331
Ukrainian GMLRS strike destroying a Russian Lancet loitering munition launcher. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1699689975766282503
Ukraine destroys Russian warehouse reportedly storing 9K121 Vikhr missiles which are launched from Ka-50 and Ka-52 attack helicopters. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1699461252848766979