Links for 2023-09-27
Anthropic's “Claude-Next” model will be 10 times more capable than today’s most powerful AI. Anthropic describes the frontier model as a “next-gen algorithm for AI self-teaching.” “These models could begin to automate large portions of the economy,” the pitch deck reads. https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/anthropics-5b-4-year-plan-to-take-on-openai/
Legendary Rich Sutton joins legendary John Carmack to accelerate the development of Artificial General Intelligence at Keen Technologies. Rich Sutton is one of the founding fathers of reinforcement learning. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/09/25/2749057/0/en/John-Carmack-and-Rich-Sutton-partner-to-accelerate-development-of-Artificial-General-Intelligence.html
NYU Tandon researchers built visual analytics system to support the creation of advanced intelligent agents https://spectrum.ieee.org/next-generation-ai-assistant
Machine learning innovation reduces computer power usage https://news.wsu.edu/news/2023/09/14/machine-learning-innovation-reduces-computer-power-usage/
Synchron developed a Brain-Computer Interface that uses pre-existing technologies such as the stent and catheter to allow insertion into the brain without the need for open brain surgery. https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/you-might-not-need-open-brain-surgery-to-get-mind-control/
“Last week we successfully ran hot liquid metal over a wall (under vacuum) and circulated it in a loop for 100 hours straight. This is a major engineering milestone and a significant step toward liquid metal walls in our future devices.” https://twitter.com/Energy_Zap/status/1706399274882474079
MIT’s Biomass Breakthrough: 100% Sustainable Jet Fuel From Plant Waste https://news.mit.edu/2023/making-aviation-fuel-biomass-0823
"[F]rom both an objective and scientific (genetic and epidemiologic) perspective there is great validity in racial/ethnic self-categorizations... The human population is not homogeneous in terms of risk of disease." https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2002-3-7-comment2007
IQ matters more than all other family background variables combined when predicting who might become an inventor. The direct effect of IQ was almost five times as large as that of having a high-income father. https://www.nber.org/papers/w24110
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as a company name in 2020.” https://www.thestack.technology/companies-house-names-rules-drop-table/Is the military junta of Myanmar losing the war? https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1705128306746822901
I'm not sure it's a good idea to joke about this when you're the CEO of the world's leading AI company.
For example, if China were convinced that AGI posed an existential threat, it could launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against OpenAI.
Which brings up an important point. Convincing world leaders that AGI is a doomsday device makes nuclear war more likely. Because nuclear weapons are your best chance of survival against an emerging superintelligence. Your best hope is to fry enough electronic systems and infrastructure to prevent it from becoming self-sufficient.
You can survive a nuclear war, but not your enemy's superintelligence.
"Victory Arches" were erected which the Soviet troops decorated with swastikas and red stars and through which German troops marched. The Soviet and German generals paid homage to each other's armies and their respective victories over Polish forces.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military_parade_in_Brest-Litovsk
Another little-known fact:
In total, the U.S. deliveries to the USSR through Lend-Lease amounted to $11 billion in materials (equivalent to $133 billion in 2021): over 400,000 jeeps and trucks; 12,000 armored vehicles (including 7,000 tanks, about 1,386 of which were M3 Lees and 4,102 M4 Shermans); 11,400 aircraft (of which 4,719 were Bell P-39 Airacobras, 3,414 were Douglas A-20 Havocs and 2,397 were Bell P-63 Kingcobras) and 1.75 million tons of food.