Links for 2023-11-14
JARVIS-1: Open-Ended Multi-task Agents with Memory-Augmented Multimodal Language Models — JARVIS-1 is able to self-improve following a life-long learning paradigm thanks to multimodal memory, sparking a more general intelligence and improved autonomy; Exhibits nearly perfect performances across >200 tasks in Minecraft; Achieved a completion rate of 12.5% in the long-horizon diamond pickaxe task, which is an increase up to 5x compared to previous records. https://craftjarvis-jarvis1.github.io/
ADaPT: Adaptable LLM Agents via Recursive Decomposition, As Needed. — Enables LLM-agents to dynamically adapt to task complexity and LLM capabilities for decision-making tasks, achieving large gains on several interactive datasets https://allenai.github.io/adaptllm/
ElevenLabs Turbo v2 Doubles Speed of AI Speech Generation https://elevenlabs.io/turbo
Nick Bostrom thinks "we need to have a greater level of concern than we currently have" about the risks of AI. But he's also slightly worried that we might eventually overshoot with a permanent ban on AI, which would be very bad. https://unherd.com/2023/11/nick-bostrom-will-ai-lead-to-tyranny/
“Announcing Moogle 🐄, a semantic search engine for Lean’s mathematical library: Find theorems faster with natural language. 1,200+ users including Terence Tao have used Moogle over 6,500 times since we opened our beta last week” https://www.moogle.ai/
Low-latency Real-time Voice Conversion on CPU https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00873
Growth and Form in a Toy Model of Superposition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jvGqQGDrYzZM4MyaN/growth-and-form-in-a-toy-model-of-superposition
Azure Quantum Elements aims to compress 250 years of chemistry into the next 25 https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/azure-quantum-elements-chemistry-materials-science/
Forget About Overpopulation, Soon There Will Be Too Few Humans https://quillette.com/2023/11/07/forget-about-overpopulation-soon-there-will-be-too-few-humans/ [https://archive.ph/wip/f8Rbl]
Elites in sub-Saharan Africa are also seeing low fertility. https://paa2019.populationassociation.org/abstracts/193638
There are 2000000000000 galaxies. This is one. The Andromeda Galaxy, with one trillion stars.
If space travel were instantaneous and you visited each star in the Andromeda galaxy for only 1 second, it would still take you ~31,000 years.
Political links:
Dozens of Chinese ships chase Philippine vessels as US renews warning it will defend its treaty ally https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-11-11/dozens-of-chinese-ships-chase-philippine-vessels-as-us-renews-warning-it-will-defend-its-treaty-ally.html
“Russians went into a BTR-80 wreck somewhere on the Avdiivka - Krasnohorivka front. A 47th Mechanised Bde FPV drone flies right inside. BOOM!” https://twitter.com/Danspiun/status/1724056903586652216
“Novodonets'ke to Urozhaine axis, approx 10/11. Another messed up Russian attack...Ukraine 58th Motorized Brigade show a destroyed Russian modified MT-LBVM/K, abandoned BMP-1AM + at least 7 KIA from the Russian 37th GMR Brigade. Warning, 1 is crushed by his APC, 1 burns.” https://twitter.com/Danspiun/status/1724039908635849028
The US bought 60 Cheetahs (Dutch Gepards) from Jordan to be transferred to Ukraine. https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1529289575/dit-is-het-perfecte-wapen-tegen-drones [https://archive.is/iG3me]
Bill Clinton on Israel & Hamas: “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza... between 96 and 97% of the West Bank, compensating land in Israel, you name it." https://twitter.com/SiaKordestani/status/1724131534121374130