Links for 2023-12-03
Using AI to control an electron microscope to rearrange individual atoms! https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17894v1
CoDi-2: In-Context, Interleaved, and Interactive Any-to-Any Generation https://codi-2.github.io/
“Meet Dobb·E: a home robot system that needs just 5 minutes of human teaching to learn new tasks. Dobb·E has visited 10 homes, learned 100+ tasks, and we are just getting started!” https://dobb-e.com/
Calibrated LLMs Must Hallucinate: For facts whose veracity cannot be determined from training data, hallucination is necessary for calibrated LLMs; Probability of generating a hallucination is close to fraction of facts that occur exactly once in data https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14648
Can Generalist Foundation Models Outcompete Special-Purpose Tuning? Case Study in Medicine https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16452
“Could a language model become aware it's a language model (spontaneously)? Could it be aware it’s deployed publicly vs in training? Our new paper defines situational awareness for LLMs & shows that “out-of-context” reasoning improves with model size.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mLfPHv4QjmeQrsSva/paper-on-measuring-situational-awareness-in-llms
SDXL Turbo: A real-time text-to-image generation model. https://stability.ai/news/stability-ai-sdxl-turbo
Florence-2: Advancing a Unified Representation for a Variety of Vision Tasks https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06242
New work analysing how fine-tuning works mechanistically https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12786
OpenAI's Bet on a Cognitive Architecture https://blog.langchain.dev/openais-bet-on-a-cognitive-architecture/
A first-of-its-kind geothermal project is now operational https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-fervo-geothermal-energy-partnership/
“A part of the male sparrow’s brain called the HVC grows from around 100,000 neurons to about 170,000 — nearly doubling in size — during the bird’s mating season.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03746-4
Penguins obtain large quantities of sleep via seconds-long microsleeps https://www.mpg.de/21169426/1127-orni-penguins-nesting-in-a-dangerous-environment-obtain-large-quantities-of-sleep-via-seconds-long-microsleeps-154562-x
Political links:
Avdiivka offensive equipment loss numbers as of 01 December 2023: 273 RU losses vs. 20 UA losses https://twitter.com/naalsio26/status/1730727054084014263
Zaporizhzhia counter-offensive equipment loss numbers as of 01 December 2023: 545 UA losses vs. 636 RU losses https://twitter.com/naalsio26/status/1730743321327214614
“Russian drone footage shows two Ukrainian heroes holding off a Russian assault group in Verbove, killing almost all attackers.” https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1730901430658035828
Footage of a Russian assault group being pretty much wiped out with artillery https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1730936662522241393
“Hell after the assault: the fighters of the 3rd OShBr are entrenched in positions under heavy enemy fire” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgcdQmCbz-I