Links for 2023-09-08
Physically Grounded Vision-Language Models for Robotic Manipulation https://iliad.stanford.edu/pg-vlm/
Sequential Dexterity: Chaining Dexterous Policies for Long-Horizon Manipulation https://sequential-dexterity.github.io/
MyoDex: A Generalizable Prior for Dexterous Manipulation https://sites.google.com/view/myodex
Stabilize to Act: Learning to Coordinate for Bimanual Manipulation https://sites.google.com/view/stabilizetoact
Need to fix some AI generated faces or blurry images? DiffBIR is a next gen image restoration model that can help with that. https://github.com/XPixelGroup/DiffBIR
Max Tegmark and Steve Omohundro posted a paper on why provably safe systems are the only feasible path to controllable AGI. Tegmark says that the view that powerful AI will always be an inscrutable black box is too pessimistic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01933 (Eliezer Yudkowsky comments: “There is no known solution for, and no known approach for inventing, a theorem you could prove about a program such that the truth of the theorem would imply the AI was actually a friendly superintelligence. This is the great difficulty... and it isn't addressed in the paper.” https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1699579311567888468)
The James Webb Telescope’s early results may force a rethink of some key tenets of physics. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/opinion/cosmology-crisis-webb-telescope.html [https://archive.ph/BuRic]
“This is a thread about a recent cursèd result in graph theory that I enjoy…Every other r-regular graph has a unique coloring, up to the recoloring trick. I have no intuition at all for what makes the triangular prism graph special.” https://twitter.com/GregBodwin/status/1698009359429587211
“World-ships: immense spacecraft able to support huge populations indefinitely, to carry them across interstellar distances. At the upper scale, we have mobile McKendree Cylinders, 4610 km long with 100 trillion people inside.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04100
“This is an introductory course on the main differences between Bayesian and frequentist statistics.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_354DxSThM&list=PLLiSq4pLlOEDtbKXx05hNVU1ortH4BTUD&index=3
How the China-Based threat actor, Storm-0558, hacked Microsoft. https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/
Ukraine links:
“As of September 7, 2023, based on satellite imagery from September 6th shared in this thread and comparative analysis, it is clear that Ukrainian forces are inflicting significant damage on russian fortified defenses in the vicinity of Verbove and Novoprokopivka.” https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1699823695290564865
“US Defense Intelligence Agency Director of Analysis Trent Maul stated that there is a “realistic possibility” that Ukrainian forces will break through the entire Russian defense in southern #Ukraine by the end of 2023, while a Ukrainian source suggested that upcoming Russian defensive positions are weaker than those Ukrainian forces have previously breached.” https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1699958296306700592
“This footage shows the withdrawal of Russian troops from Klishchiivka, while being hammered. Just like in Urozhaine Russians have chosen the worst possible moment for their retreat: During the day and without any armored vehicles. Absolutely disastrous.” https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1699850184367194286
“Ukrainian forces have reportedly managed to hit the Russian SILICON EL microelectronics plant in Bryansk again with a drone, images reportedly show the administrative building on fire.” https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1699865525780639954
“[Russian] General Andrei Mordvichev interview: - The war will take a long time. There is no point in talking specific dates... If we talk about Eastern Europe, what we have to do - of course it will take longer... - Is 🇺🇦 just a stage? - Yes, exactly. It's just the beginning.” https://twitter.com/laowaiaround/status/1699973178372903055