Links for 2023-09-17
"Harris told the room that with $800 and a few hours of work, his team was able to strip Meta’s safety controls off LLaMA 2 and that the AI responded to prompts with instructions to develop a biological weapon." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/13/senate-ai-hearing-musk-zuckerburg-schumer/ [https://archive.ph/CrCSN]
In pre-registered experiments at BCG, the elite consulting firm, consultants using the GPT-4 AI finished 12.2% more tasks, completed tasks 25.1% more quickly & produced 40% higher quality results." https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-and-cyborgs-on-the-jagged
Conducting Qualitative Interviews with AI: "...a majority of respondents indicate a strict preference for AI-assisted interviews over human-led interviews." https://twitter.com/FelixChopra/status/1702791162753696091
Plug-and-play & one-for-all solution for upsampling any audio to 48kHz high fidelity. https://audioldm.github.io/audiosr/
Team’s New AI Technology Gives Robot Recognition Skills a Big Lift https://news.utdallas.edu/science-technology/ai-robot-recognition-skills-progress-2023/
LEAP Hand: Low-Cost, Efficient, and Anthropomorphic Hand for Robot Learning https://leap-hand.github.io/
Large Language Model for Science: Proposes Socratic reasoning, a general framework that encourages LLMs to recursively discover, solve, and integrate problems while facilitating self-evaluation and refinement. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05689
"The Tank Museum in Bovington, England...attracts only a few hundred thousand visitors a year, mainly families on rained-out beach vacations...Yet there is one place where it not only ranks among the world’s largest museums, but surpasses them: YouTube...Last year, the museum generated a third of its revenue online, he said, including from viewers paying for early access to clips, and merchandise sales from an online store. Some of that roughly $2.5-million online income was used to hire Copson as a full-time presenter" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/arts/design/tank-museum-youtube.html [https://archive.ph/1P6jZ]
“Holtec inks long-term deal with Wolverine to repower Palisades Nuclear Power Plant: The plant, which is located about 15 miles north of Benton Harbor, was permanently shut down in May 2022 after generating nuclear energy for over 50 years.” https://www.wndu.com/2023/09/12/holtec-inks-long-term-deal-with-wolverine-repower-palisades-nuclear-power-plant/
Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left https://rorotoko.com/interview/20230913-jones-garett-on-book-culture-transplant-how-migrants-make-economies-they-move-to-a-lot-like-the-ones-they-left/
“On Sept 2nd, ~80 Burmese soldiers took positions in Thailand. This company was attempting to resupply the besieged Kwe Lone Tine outpost along the border. After around a week, they were kicked out by the Thai army, only to find their base captured by the KNLA.” https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1702916057806377459
Generated using StableDiffusion and ControlNet: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/16jae68/i_made_some_spiral_and_tile_controlnets/
Ukraine links:
Ukraine will increase the production of drones by about 140 times by the end of the year. The number of strikes on Russian ships will increase. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-minister-vows-more-drone-strikes-russian-ships-2023-09-16/ [https://archive.ph/31Vw2]
“Intense footage published by Ukraine’s 3rd Separate Assault Brigade showing them push into devastated Andriivka village on Bakhmut’s southern flank. What was once a verdant area is now a colorless, war-torn hellscape.” https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1703004846482231723
"[Russian President Vladimir Putin knew very well that NATO was not a threat to Russia.] If he believed that we were threatening Russia, he couldn't have moved on his troops to Ukraine to fight the war there." – General Eirik Kristoffersen https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-forces-near-norway-are-20-fewer-than-before-ukraine-war-norways-armed-2023-09-16/ [https://archive.ph/HFcEv]
American allies in Asia are increasingly concerned about stalling aid to Ukraine. These worries are particularly acute in Taiwan, where leaders told me this month that a major decline in U.S. military assistance to Kyiv would embolden Beijing and weaken deterrence in Asia.
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-taiwanese-are-worried-that-the-us-will-abandon-aid-invasion-2e264813 [https://archive.ph/LO4n6]
As I wrote in April 2022: https://x.com/XiXiDu/status/1515614016902778882
China is watching the war against Ukraine very closely and will base its future decisions on whether the West allows Russia to win.