Links for 2023-12-10
Large Language Models for Mathematicians — Discusses to what extent SotA LLMs can aid professional mathematicians https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04556
“How can we make LLM agents work together efficiently on complex tasks at a large scale? 🚨Introducing LLMCompiler🦙🛠️, a tool that compiles an effective plan for executing multiple tasks in parallel. The LLMCompiler paper takes the concept of an ‘LLM OS’ to new heights, showcasing how LLM agents can effectively collaborate on complex, large-scale tasks. A game-changer for anyone interested in AI’s potential in multi-tasking and efficiency.” https://github.com/SqueezeAILab/LLMCompiler
Chain of Code: Reasoning with a Language Model-Augmented Code Emulator -- Proposes a simple yet surprisingly effective extension that improves LM code-driven reasoning https://sites.google.com/view/chain-of-code
Simon Willison has published an excellent exploration of OpenAI’s GPTs. They’re more than they seem: not just a simple way of storing useful prompts. https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/15/gpts/
AI is coming to the Internet of Things. ARM’s latest CPU design, the Cortex-M52, is a processor designed for AI in low-power, low-cost devices. https://thenewstack.io/arm-pushes-ai-into-the-smallest-iot-devices-with-cortex-m52-chip/
VideoSwap: Customized Video Subject Swapping with Interactive Semantic Point Correspondence https://videoswap.github.io/
"EfficientSAM was just released and it's fast! 💨 With 20x fewer params, it is now 20x faster than the original SAM segmentation model, while staying in the same accuracy range." https://yformer.github.io/efficient-sam/ (Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/yunyangx/EfficientSAM)
Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Adult Human Somatic Progenitor Seed Cells https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202303575
Tim Bray explains Leica’s use of C2PA to watermark photographs. C2PA is a standard that uses public key cryptography to trace image provenance. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/10/28/C2PA-Workflows
Reproductive startup launches test to identify an embryo’s genetic defects before an IVF pregnancy begins https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/05/startup-orchid-launches-test-to-identify-genetic-defects-in-ivf-embryos.html
An important new group of attacks against Bluetooth, called BLUFFS, allows attackers to impersonate others’ devices and to execute man-in-the-middle attacks. All Bluetooth devices since roughly 2014 are vulnerable. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-bluffs-attack-lets-attackers-hijack-bluetooth-connections/
Political links:
“100 Chinese maritime militia ships cordoning off the Whitson Reef in the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Philippines, blocking access to Filipino fishermen who have been working there for decades. China is again about to seize foreign territory in the SCS” https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1733510348311810306
Fought for 3 days with a bullet under his armor. At the stabilization point near Bakhmut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWYWoHVdKDs
Russian killing fields in trenches of Ukraine. https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1733502125089357861
“Another selection of footage from Magyar's birds FPV and Baba Yaga drones operating in the Krynky area, 8 December (subtitles). Extensive damage to Russian vehicles.” https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1733450676540240138
“Israeli Forces have turned the “Palestine Square” into a parking lot for Merkava MBTs and Namer IFVs.” https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1733486601508983233
Mass-surrender of Hamas terrorists in Jabaliya https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1733565690877980834