Links for 2023-11-17
Meta: “Introducing Emu Video and Emu Edit, our latest generative AI research milestones. These new models deliver exciting results in high quality, diffusion-based text-to-video generation and controlled image editing with text instructions.” https://ai.meta.com/blog/emu-text-to-video-generation-image-editing-research/
Technique enables AI on edge devices to keep learning over time: With the PockEngine training method, machine-learning models can efficiently and continuously learn from user data on edge devices like smartphones. https://news.mit.edu/2023/technique-enables-ai-edge-devices-keep-learning-over-time
“We present Go To AnyThing (GOAT), a universal primitive to navigate to any object specified in any way - as an image, language description, or category - in any unseen environment.” https://theophilegervet.github.io/projects/goat/
Instant3D: Fast Text-to-3D with Sparse-View Generation and Large Reconstruction Model https://jiahao.ai/instant3d/
Instant3D: Instant Text-to-3D Generation https://ming1993li.github.io/Instant3DProj/
One-2-3-45++: Fast Single Image to 3D Objects with Consistent Multi-View Generation and 3D Diffusion https://sudo-ai-3d.github.io/One2345plus_page/
Drivable 3D Gaussian Avatars https://zielon.github.io/d3ga/
Single-Image 3D Human Digitization with Shape-Guided Diffusion https://human-sgd.github.io/
Prompt Engineering a Prompt Engineer https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05661
Introducing MULTION VISION - a robust Vision to Actions Agent that can reliably interact with 95% of the Web using just pixels 🚀 https://twitter.com/DivGarg9/status/1723882200071016494
GPT-4V in Wonderland: Large Multimodal Models for Zero-Shot Smartphone GUI Navigation https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07562
Germany’s Leading AI startup Aleph Alpha Raises $500 M https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/06/lidl-owner-and-bosch-ventures-co-lead-500m-series-b-into-german-ai-start-up-aleph-alpha/
Collective intelligence can help reduce medical misdiagnoses: “Single diagnosticians achieved 46% accuracy, whereas pooling the decisions of 10 diagnosticians increased accuracy to 76%.” https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/press-releases/collective-intelligence-in-medicine
Meta-analysis of field studies on gender bias in hiring: In male-dominated/gender-balanced fields, male applicants were favoured before 2009, but since then, there’s been no consistent bias or even a weak pro-female bias. In female-dominated fields, female applicants are favoured. https://stevestewartwilliams.substack.com/p/fifty-years-of-gender-bias
Fort Bourtange, Netherlands: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bourtange
It was built under orders of William the Silent and completed in 1593. Its original purpose was to control the only road between Germany and the city of Groningen, which was controlled by the Spaniards during the time of the Eighty Years' War.
Political links:
Britain's armed forces minister says about 302,000 Russian military KIA/WIA in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion in Feb. 2022. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-11-08/679 (Note: We know from Russian sources (obituary, grave, memorial plaque, etc.) that at least 3,000 Russian officers are KIA. In Vietnam: 7877 US officers (KIA/WIA). Total US casualties: 58,281 KIA; 153,372 WIA. So ~2130 KIA officers (~27%) translated to a total of ~212,000 (KIA/WIA). Plausible.)
Russia ushers in a new era of cyber-physical attack: “Sandworm’s [GRU’s] latest grid attack is a watershed moment. It has bucked expectations of a future defined by increasingly tailored malware and has shown that quicker, stealthier, and more generic…methods are better suited for a wartime environment” https://bindinghook.com/articles-hooked-on-trends/russia-ushers-in-a-new-era-of-cyber-physical-attack/
“To those who have missed the previous 30 years, here is a short list of the results of negotiations with Russia that it never respected” https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1724427557016043668
3rd SOF Regiment adjusts a HIMARS missile strike against a Russian ZALA drone unit. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1725099489248043133
''Youth unemployment has skyrocketed to the point that officials no longer publish that data. A fatalistic ennui is spreading among young Chinese, who talk about "lying flat" or leaving the country in search of better prospects elsewhere.'' https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67423040