Links for 2023-12-14
Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JEhW3HDMKzekDShva/significantly-enhancing-adult-intelligence-with-gene-editing
Human brain cells hooked up to a chip can do speech recognition https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/11/1084926/human-brain-cells-chip-organoid-speech-recognition/ [https://archive.is/wip/C9cLX]
An AI method that achieves accurate and flexible inference for brain-computer interfaces. https://twitter.com/MaryamShanechi/status/1734236100397560038
AI to help get reactors to power AI https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-targets-nuclear-to-power-ai-operations-e10ff798 [https://archive.is/bGZhH]
DNA-folding nanorobots can manufacture limitless copies of themselves https://newatlas.com/robotics/dna-nanorobots-self-replication/
Google DeepMind released its most advanced text-to-image model Imagen 2. https://deepmind.google/technologies/imagen-2/
Axel Springer is the first publishing house globally to partner with [OpenAI] on a deeper integration of journalism in AI technologies. https://openai.com/blog/axel-springer-partnership
"As we get closer and closer to superintelligence, everybody involved gets more stressed and more anxious and we realized the stakes are higher and higher" https://twitter.com/tsarnick/status/1734849976667443285
The Hittite Empire may have fallen due to "three straight years of severe drought, in 1198, 1197 and 1196 BC." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/08/ancient-hittite-empire-tree-study-drought
Being active may reflect a healthy phenotype instead of causally reducing mortality https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10274991/
Political links:
New large Norwegian aid package of NASAMS air defense missiles and systems for Ukraine just announced. https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/noreg-donerer-meir-luftvern-til-ukraina/id3018411/
The Danish government has decided to present a new support package to Ukraine worth €1 billion. Tomorrow, it will be presented to the Danish parliament. https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-latest-putin-sky-news-blog-12541713?postid=6914893#liveblog-body
180.000 projectiles are currently in the process of being transferred to Ukraine, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell told reporters in Brussels. https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/news-borrel-ukraina-boeprypasy/32729496.html
10 minutes of hate: Russian propagandists talk about Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEDMbF-F4lo
IMF is loving Milei’s moves in Argentina so far https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2023/12/12/pr23441-imf-spokesperson-statement-on-argentina