Links for 2023-11-29
Pika 1.0, the idea-to-video platform that brings your creativity to life https://pika.art/ — Andrej Karpathy: “You know how image generation went from blurry 32x32 texture patches to high-resolution images that are difficult to distinguish from real in roughly a snap of a finger? The same is now happening along the time axis (extending to video) and the repercussions boggle the mind just a bit. Every human becomes a director of multi-modal dreams, like the architect in Inception.”
GPT-4 for radiology. Far from perfect, but state-of-the-art performance on some tasks: “Surprisingly, we found radiology report summaries generated by GPT-4 to be comparable and, in some cases, even preferred over those written by experienced radiologists” https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/gpt-4s-potential-in-shaping-the-future-of-radiology/
NVIDIA Powers Training for Some of the Largest Amazon Titan Foundation Models https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemo-amazon-titan/
An Embodied Generalist Agent in 3D World https://embodied-generalist.github.io/
Bard can now watch YouTube videos for you https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23972636/bard-youtube-extension-update-search-video-content
Vitalik Buterin: "AI risk 1: existential risk. My p(doom) is around 0.1." https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html (thread: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1729251822391447904)
Apocalypse insurance, and the hardline libertarian take on AI risk https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mSeesg7i4d9scWAet/apocalypse-insurance-and-the-hardline-libertarian-take-on-ai
5 more brain-computer interface companies you need to know https://www.massdevice.com/brain-computer-interface-companies-need-to-know-2023/
“Hence at the macroevolutionary scale, there can be said to have been a “ten-million-year explosion” in primate G leading up to modern humans.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289623000764
The prefrontal cortex: from monkey to man https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awad389/7424860
First of a 3-part series on advances in the aging biotech space. Stay tuned for future posts focusing on reprogramming and cell/organ replacement! https://medium.com/prime-movers-lab/aging-biotech-moving-beyond-the-hallmarks-b2c417ec59e8 [https://archive.is/wip/ICXyz]
No Digging Required: Space Mining on the Moon and Beyond May Be Solar Powered https://www.space.com/moon-asteroid-space-mining-with-concentrated-sunlight.html
All SpaceX launches from Cape Canaveral in 13 years https://twitter.com/AlexSvanArt/status/1630896377176702977
Political links:
“Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak — Authorities are covering up the spread of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia.” https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/28/chinese-hospitals-pandemic-outbreak-pneumonia/
Milei’s Embrace of Judaism Seals Argentina Pro-Israel Stance — “The president-elect intends to convert to Judaism, as per one of his spokespersons, and on Saturday participated in a Jewish ceremony in Buenos Aires where he received a blessing from another rabbi.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-27/milei-s-conversion-to-judaism-seals-pro-israel-push-by-argentina
Frontlines Overview: Recent Developments -- Avdiivka, Kupyans'k, Andriivka https://frontelligence.substack.com/p/frontlines-overview-recent-developments