GPT-4 can solve a wide variety of problems, and doesn't look very much like a goal-directed optimizer; certainly it doesn't look like a very coherent one. Are there any kinds of cognition, then, that do require "goal-directedness"? Nate Soares responds in a new post. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AWoZBzxdm4DoGgiSj/ability-to-solve-long-horizon-tasks-correlates-with-wanting
Combining AI with traditional wet lab work creates a virtuous circle from lab to data and back to the lab. https://proto.life/2023/11/perspective-the-rise-of-wet-artificial-intelligence/
Watermarks in the Sand: Impossibility of Strong Watermarking for Generative Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04378
Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/kyutai-is-an-french-ai-research-lab-with-a-330-million-budget-that-will-make-everything-open-source/
“access to lots of capital, computing power and data has helped AI researchers in Abu Dhabi train up Falcon, an open-source LLM that in some ways beats Meta’s … the UAE may well be the third-most-important country for AI, after America and China.” https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/11/23/how-to-thrive-in-a-fractured-world [https://archive.is/dYw0k]
Experimental brain-like computing system more accurate with custom algorithm https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/experimental-brain-like-computing-system-custom-algorithm
“Terry Tao's blog post on the PFR project is essential reading for anybody interested in formal mathematics with Lean.” https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/11/18/formalizing-the-proof-of-pfr-in-lean4-using-blueprint-a-short-tour/
Wedderburn's little theorem: a finite division ring is a field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedderburn%27s_little_theorem
In middle-aged mice: a low isoleucine diet led to longer lifespan than either a control or low-protein diet. Less cancer. The protocol was free feeding and the low isoleucine group ate more and yet was leaner. https://news.wisc.edu/mice-eating-less-of-specific-amino-acid-overrepresented-in-diet-of-obese-people-live-longer-healthier/
The price of an NVIDIA A100 and a NATO 155 mm artillery shell are now in the same ballpark.
Imaging having to explain to someone from World War I why a machine that can perform 312,000,000,000,000 calculations per second is not much more expensive than an artillery shell that they fire by the millions over their muddy trenches.
> Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source
Is that legal in the EU?