Links for 2023-11-18
Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI and will be replaced by Mira Murati. As a result, Greg Brockman quit as well. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eHFo7nwLYDzpuamRM/sam-altman-fired-from-openai (Eliezer Yudkowsky comments: “Mira Murati reached out to me in 2022 for a one-hour zoom call. Sam Altman never essayed any such contact. Also, I don't think Murati has made any jokes about how funny it would be if the world ended. I'm tentatively 8.5% more cheerful about OpenAI going forward.” https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1725628554099216667)
Language Models can be Logical Solvers: LoGiPT, a novel language model that directly emulates the reasoning processes of logical solvers and bypasses the parsing errors by learning to strict adherence to solver syntax and grammar. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06158
Machine learning gives users ‘superhuman’ ability to open and control tools in virtual reality https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/machine-learning-gives-users-superhuman-ability-to-open-and-control-tools-in-virtual-reality
SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues? https://www.swebench.com/
Shopify Has Written a Million Lines of Code with CoPilot AI https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/11/shopify-has-written-a-million-lines-of-code-with-copilot-ai.html
How AI has already changed coding: "Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft [https://archive.is/n3rpA]
Microsoft Holds Chip Makers’ Feet To The Fire With Homegrown CPU And AI Chips https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/15/microsoft-holds-chip-makers-feet-to-the-fire-with-homegrown-cpu-and-ai-chips/
Airbnb acquires AI startup for just under $200 million https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14/airbnb-acquires-ai-startup-for-just-under-200-million.html
UK will refrain from regulating AI ‘in the short term’ https://www.ft.com/content/ecef269b-be57-4a52-8743-70da5b8d9a65 [https://archive.is/HA7yZ]
Let David Attenborough narrate your life: https://twitter.com/charliebholtz/status/1724815159590293764 (Code: https://github.com/cbh123/narrator)
3D printing precisely: Low-cost error compensation for fabrication of high-precision microstructures https://spie.org/news/3d-printing-precisely-low-cost-error-compensation-for-fabrication-of-high-precision-microstructures
US, UK Lead Pledge to Triple Nuclear Power by 2050 at COP28 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-14/us-uk-to-push-pledge-to-triple-nuclear-power-by-2050-at-cop28 [https://archive.is/KG8Xd]
Israel is desalinating water for less than a dollar per cubic meter. https://humanprogress.org/desalinating-water-is-becoming-absurdly-cheap/
Shepard tables illusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tables
Political links:
“[T]his 3D-printed device that retails for $35 detects ominous radio signals associated with the enemy’s technology. Thanks to this cheap innovation, soldiers have a chance to take cover before the drone pilots can relay their position to artillery crews.” https://thedispatch.com/article/inside-ukraines-revolutionary-warfare/ [https://archive.is/wip/RgrhZ]
Avdiivka, Stepove. Occupier complaining. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1725211378729042409
“Russian soldier got completely obliterated by a Ukrainian FPV-Drone of the 47th Mechanized Brigade near Avdiivka, Donetsk Region. The 2nd clip shows how a severely wounded Russian soldier gets abandonded by his comrades who leave him to die.” https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1725213304249835978
“A video released by the State Border Service shows 10+ dead Russian servicemen and numerous fleeing the scene after a failed attack in the area of Svatove, Luhansk region.” https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1725452840670298544
“The names of four of those killed in the 13 September Ukrainian missile strike on a docked Russian submarine and landing ship in Sevastopol have been disclosed. According to an obituary, the entire crew of the landing ship Minsk was killed in the attack.” https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1725492862190592166
Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has gone public about the reduction in the supply of artillery shells to Ukraine, telling reporters that deliveries of the munitions have "really slowed down." https://abcnews.go.com/International/zelenskyy-warns-supply-vital-artillery-ammunition-ukraine-slowed/story?id=104976430
"A western official said on Thursday that Ukraine had moved “elements of three brigades” to the Russian-occupied east bank of the [Dnipro] river, and confirmed reports last week by Russian military bloggers that Ukraine has moved some vehicles across." https://www.ft.com/content/1b9dd94a-e569-492d-8d09-5f9861947dbb [https://archive.is/Yk620]