Links for 2023-12-02
“We just made speech translation a whole lot better! Introducing Seamless, an AI model that translates speech in real-time while also maintaining similar vocal style.” https://ai.meta.com/research/seamless-communication/
What if the missing ingredient for AGI is not more compute, or more parameters, or even a neat new algorithm, but rather social learning? A social path to human-like artificial intelligence https://rdcu.be/drm0j
“This exciting paper shows AI design of materials, robotic synthesis. 10s of new compounds in 17 days. But did they? This paper has very serious problems in materials characterisation. In my view it should never have got near publication. Hold on tight let's take a look...” https://twitter.com/Robert_Palgrave/status/1730358675523424344
DeepMind has formalized a theoretical result related to AI safety in Lean. https://twitter.com/davidad/status/1729461156618637502
“We are excited to open-source the self-operating computer framework that enables multimodal models, including gpt-4-vision to simulate human-like mouse clicks and keyboard inputs on a computer.” https://github.com/OthersideAI/self-operating-computer
On possible cross-fertilization between AI and neuroscience https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pL7CT2iJYaA4ne9Yd/on-possible-cross-fertilization-between-ai-and-neuroscience
Groq Says It Can Deploy 1 Million AI Inference Chips In Two Years https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/27/groq-says-it-can-deploy-1-million-ai-inference-chips-in-two-years/
“XTX Markets has just launched the "Artificial Intelligence-Mathematical Olympiad (AI-MO)" prize fund, totaling USD 10 million” https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/111485815228734243 (“A strong IMO competitor is not unlike an athlete. It takes years of problem solving for multiple hours a day to develop the background and skills to compete at this level.” https://twitter.com/rm_rafailov/status/1729670630495145984)
An open source AI that proves theorems https://learnandburn.ai/p/an-open-source-ai-that-proves-theorems
Could a single alien message destroy us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st9EJg_t6yc
Astronomers have detected over 5,300 planets near other stars. Here's a beautiful visualization of some of them: https://www.halcyonmaps.com/terrestrial-exoplanets/
“A price is a signal wrapped up in an incentive.” https://mru.org/courses/principles-economics-microeconomics/price-system-spontaneous-order
Political links:
US popular support for arming Ukraine is still high. 59% of all Americans support arming Ukraine, and 75% say it’s important that Ukraine win the war. https://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan-institute/centers/freedom-democracy/reagan-institute-summer-survey/
A Chicago Council on Glob Affairs poll just released shows 63% of Americans continue to support military and economic aid for Ukraine, down only 2% from Nov 2022. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/poll-americans-support-ukraine-2665792703/
More on Ukraine's targeting of Russia's economic lifeline to China https://twitter.com/kromark/status/1730550985745924151
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: A Personal Account of the Battle for Avdiivka by 28-Year-Old Ukrainian Volunteer Yana https://frontelligence.substack.com/p/the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-a
Venezuela threatening to invade Guyana. https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1730715431751593985