Links for 2023-10-30
A 25 nm synthetic motor made from DNA, that produces continuous rotary motion driven by an ion concentration gradient across a membrane, reminiscent of the ubiquitous biological molecular motor ATP-synthase. A marvelous feat of biomimetic nanotechnology. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-023-01527-8
A rhythmically pulsing leaf-spring DNA-origami nanoengine that drives a passive follower https://news.asu.edu/20231018-international-team-develops-novel-dna-nanoengine
AI for Mathematics: A Cognitive Science Perspective https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13021
“Instead of making models themselves bigger, what happens when multiple models, each designed with a specific goal and trained on a manageably curated, well-vetted, and proprietary dataset, are woven together in service of a single, higher-level goal? What if AI agents like Einstein Copilot could be combined—orchestrated—just as multiple humans can work as a team to do more than they could as individuals?” https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/from-copilot-to-coorchestration/
"...we found GPT-4 either outperforms or is on par with current SOTA radiology models....GPT-4 has a sufficient level of radiology knowledge with only occasional errors in complex context that require nuanced domain knowledge. For findings summarisation, GPT-4 outputs are found to be overall comparable with existing manually-written impressions." https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14573
Tyler Cowen drops a "generative book". Published in GPT-4 (not WITH, but IN). Beginning of an era of books that dynamically cradle our minds https://econgoat.ai/en
People Are Speaking With ChatGPT for Hours, Bringing 2013’s Her Closer to Reality https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/people-are-speaking-with-chatgpt-for-hours-bringing-2013s-her-closer-to-reality/
Google Commits $2 Billion in Funding to AI Startup Anthropic https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-commits-2-billion-in-funding-to-ai-startup-anthropic-db4d4c50 [https://archive.ph/mD2DU]
New £100 million fund to capitalise on AI’s game-changing potential in life sciences and healthcare https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-100-million-fund-to-capitalise-on-ais-game-changing-potential-in-life-sciences-and-healthcare
Sotopia: an Open-ended Social Learning Environment https://www.sotopia.world/
Nice near-future SF by Eliezer Yudkowsky reminiscent of Zero HP Lovecraft stories https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1718654143110512741
Political links:
“When you spend 5% of your annual Pentagon budget to support Ukraine while destroying 50% of Russian military equipment, that's a good investment.” https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1718527548445921562
“There is enough evidence that Ukrainian forces successfully crossed the Dnipro river at multiple points. Among them is the settlement of Krynky.” https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1718685910634463694
Russian helicopters left Berdyansk airport in southern Ukraine after Ukrainian forces struck the site with ATACMS earlier this month. https://twitter.com/bradyafr/status/1718787300300091866
Mob storms Dagestan airport in search of Jewish passengers from Israel https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/29/mob-storms-dagestan-airport-in-search-of-jewish-passengers-from-israel
“The lynch mob which stormed the airport in Dagestan, Russia to search for Jewish passengers have now stopped a bus full of kids in front of the airport” https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1718722690368823520
Guy interviews a young kid in the airport lynch mob in Dagestan. “Why are you here?” “I came for the Jews” “The Jews?” “Yes, to kill them” https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1718726708969259377