Links for 2023-09-29
French billionaire Xavier Niel to invest €200mn in artificial intelligence: “Niel wants the research lab to foster a French AI ecosystem that can rival Microsoft-backed OpenAI in the US” https://www.ft.com/content/ff29e490-118e-4eca-8edb-a02baae05675 [https://archive.ph/lyqg5]
Jony Ive is reportedly developing an AI gadget with OpenAI’s Sam Altman https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/27/23892135/jony-ive-sam-altman-ai-device-openai-ceo-apple-designer
“This is the first GPT-4V-powered agent. Autonomously designs webapps -- writes code, looks at the resulting site, improves the code accordingly, repeat.” https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1707480439793840402
Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses: https://twitter.com/verge/status/1707105410786701770 (Is augmented reality finally becoming stylish and affordable?)
IBM Research’s newest prototype chips use drastically less power to solve AI tasks https://research.ibm.com/blog/analog-ai-chip-low-power
New semimetal could support quest for energy efficient electronic devices https://cse.umn.edu/ece/news/new-semimetal-could-support-quest-energy-efficient-electronic-devices
CMOS chip accelerates optimization tasks via many magnetic spins https://spectrum.ieee.org/ising-machine
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water https://news.mit.edu/2023/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-0927
Review of evidence for Elon Musk being on bipolar mood disorder spectrum. https://gwern.net/doc/psychiatry/bipolar/elon-musk/index
Stable Diffusion Ultimate Upscale (21956 x 32000) https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/16twlx6/how_far_can_you_go_yesterday_107_megapixels_today/
Meta-analyses find that antisocial behavior is substantially heritable. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2656184
“This clears up why America has such a high incarceration rate: it's because Americans are relatively violent people!” https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1705283540420546814
“85 years ago...Czechoslovak Republic have launched mobilization as a reaction to German agression...In 48 hours more than 1,2 milion man stood ready to defend their beloved homeland against Nazi threat...Czechoslovak goverment eventually stood down its forces and agreed to Munich Betrayal, where Great Britain and France sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler demands...They did it as part of appeasment policy in order to avoid war with Germany.” https://twitter.com/Danny_elMayor/status/1705606553359765918