Links for 2023-09-10
LLM destroys Wharton MBA students on task: “Generate an idea for a new product or service appealing to college students that could be made available for $50 or less.” Judges were actual students.. 35/40 top ideas came from AI. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mba-students-vs-chatgpt-innovation-679edf3b [https://archive.ph/6M6Ke]
AI presidents discuss AI alignment agendas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02kbWY5mahQ
AI Is Building Highly Effective Antibodies That Humans Can’t Even Imagine https://www.wired.com/story/labgenius-antibody-factory-machine-learning/ [https://archive.ph/rDsoz]
How Large Language Models Assisted a Website Makeover https://thenewstack.io/how-large-language-models-assisted-a-website-makeover/
Apple Spending Millions of Dollars a Day on Conversational AI https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/06/apple-conversational-ai-spending/
Computing Percentages Easier https://jeremykun.com/2023/09/05/computing-percentages-easier/
Researchers use commercial quantum computer to identify molecular candidate for development of more efficient solar cells https://www.ornl.gov/news/researchers-use-commercial-quantum-computer-identify-molecular-candidate-development-more
“81% of French approve of the ban on headscarves in school. French public opinion is solidly for a hardline on Islam, just as it was over punishing the rioters (and their parents) earlier this year.” https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1699250824562581707
“The typical homicide victim in America has 10 or more prior arrests, and probably more than half have themselves committed a serious violent crime...” https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/one-simple-trick-to-avoid-being-a
'Argentina's pollsters, caught out by the surprise win of radical libertarian Javier Milei in August's presidential primary, now show him easing to first place in an Oct. 22 general election, likely ahead of ruling party economy chief Sergio Massa.' https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/milei-leads-polls-argentina-election-after-primary-shock-2023-09-08/
“The great Chinese flow reversal: The combination of a Chinese slowing economy, higher rates in the US, reshoring and rising political tensions (and fears that any Chinese invasion of Taiwan might trigger a Russia-style exclusion from the US-led global financial system) has triggered a massive reversal in flows.” https://www.ft.com/content/74361917-ae03-436d-9d1f-87fa2e239f47 [https://archive.ph/26HcP]
A friendly reminder that Russia has already lost against NATO:
1. NATO expansion (Finnland/Sweden).
2. Loss of Russian soft power over Western politicians.
3. Loss of Western markets.
4. Significant degradation of Russia's military power in the eyes of its enemies.
5. Massive strengthening of Ukrainian national identity.
6. Instead of security for people in Donbas, drones frequently target Moscow.
7. Russia's war on Ukraine has fueled a massive brain drain that will hobble Putin's economy.