Links for 2023-11-28
GPQA, a graduate-level “Google-proof” Q&A benchmark designed for scalable oversight! GPQA is a dataset of *really hard* questions that PhDs with full access to Google can’t answer. Highly skilled non-expert humans spending 30+ mins with unrestricted web search: 34% accuracy; GPT-4: 39%; PhDs in corresponding domains: 65%. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12022
Rankitect: Ranking Architecture Search Battling World-class Engineers at Meta Scale https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08430
Simplifying Transformer Blocks https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01906
PhysGaussian: Physics-Integrated 3D Gaussians for Generative Dynamics https://xpandora.github.io/PhysGaussian/
Baidu Inc. reported a better-than-expected 6% increase in revenue, partly due to the early stages of monetizing its ChatGPT-style AI, Ernie bots https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/baidu-s-revenue-beats-as-chatgpt-style-ai-starts-monetization-1.2001478
Doug Lenat's source code for AM and EURISKO (+Traveller?) found in public archives https://white-flame.com/am-eurisko.html
Northvolt in new sodium-ion battery breakthrough https://www.ft.com/content/826fb9bb-b27f-4c68-ad4b-a54ad74713c9 [https://archive.is/HBjrC]
Electric car battery prices are going back down faster than expected https://electrek.co/2023/11/20/electric-car-battery-prices-are-going-back-down-faster/
“Individuals with lower intelligence levels (typically measured as IQ) tend to be more likely to engage in criminal behavior," and there is "consistent evidence of a mostly linear" association between low IQ and criminality. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-31412-011
“Caring about race differences is not a fetish: Critics accuse race realists of obsessing over race. But refuting widespread lies about race is not an intellectual failure or a fetish. It is a duty.” https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/caring-about-race-differences-is
Political links:
"Don't tell me that you can't afford to mobilize your industry and will so that Ukraine wins." Retired British general Sir Richard Barrons addressed European officials and opinion leaders at a forum in Lucerne, Switzerland. “You represent an economy of 15 trillion euros a year. Give me 75 billion euros a year for 2-3 years, and I will make sure that the Ukrainian army wins. It’s not about whether it’s affordable. It’s about choice, about competence ", - he said. https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1728882039556813250
Johnson 'confident and optimistic' about Israel, Ukraine funding package's chances https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/11/27/congress/johnson-house-speaker-gop-supplemental-israel-ukraine-00128707
Destroyed Russian vehicles as far as the eye can see in the Avdiivka sector. https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1729174229739094102
“Relatives of mobilised Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine say their men call themselves slave warriors: they are exhausted, depressed, serving with serious diseases or injuries, equipped at their own expense, commanded by drunkards and sent to die in "meat assaults".” https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1728871627805626643