Links for 2023-12-19
ReST meets ReAct: Self-Improvement for Multi-Step Reasoning LLM Agent — “…we show that the synthetic data produced as part of this iterative process could be used for distilling the agent into one or two orders of magnitude smaller models with performance comparable to the pre-trained teacher agent.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10003
Introducing Stable Zero123: Quality 3D object generation from single images. https://stability.ai/news/stable-zero123-3d-generation
Leaving You Speechless: The Top 7 AI Text-to-speech and Voice-cloning Startups of 2023 https://deepgram.com/learn/top-ai-text-to-speech-and-voice-cloning-startups
“I’ve tested many codegen models and GPT-4 was a clear winner until now. Congratulations to @MistralAI for bringing in mistral-medium as a strong competitor for code generation tasks.” https://twitter.com/deliprao/status/1734997263024329157
Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral declared on French national radio that Mistral aims to ship a model that’s as good as GPT-4 next year https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/l-invite-de-7h50/l-invite-de-7h50-du-mardi-12-decembre-2023-3833724
Researchers Develop Spintronic Probabilistic Computers Compatible with Current AI https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/researchers_develop_spintronic_probabilistic_computers_compatible_with_current_ai.html
A Breakthrough in Genome Editing: How NICER Outperforms CRISPR/Cas9 https://www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp/eng/activities/results/2023year/snakata2023-9-15
Significant Neuroanatomical Variation Among Domestic Dog Breeds https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/39/7748
China starts up world's first fourth-generation nuclear reactor https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-starts-up-worlds-first-fourth-generation-nuclear-reactor-2023-12-06/ [https://archive.is/LDEY8]
China expects to OK 6-8 nuclear power units per year in green energy drive https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-expects-ok-6-8-nuclear-power-units-per-year-green-energy-drive-2023-09-27/ [https://archive.is/RUyMq]
Russian Fast Reactor Makes Progress to Eliminating Nuclear Waste https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/12/russian-fast-reactor-makes-progress-to-eliminating-nuclear-waste.html
"In the US, Jews are about 2.7% of the population, but 17% of our billionaires, & 10% of billionaires globally. They make up 9% of the Senate & 6% of the House, … in the 2020 election cycle, they were 15 of the top 25 individual donors as of September." https://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-great-jewish-realignment-of-2023
I would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have, at any given time, 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins. That our solar system would be full of life and intelligence and energy. And we can easily support a civilization that large with all of the resources in the solar system.
— Jeff Bezos on the Lex Fridman podcast[1]
Those are rookie numbers. Earth alone could theoretically support a trillion people by building 300,000 stories of continuous structure and continent-sized radiators.[2] The solar system could support 100 million-trillion humans.[3]
[1] https://lexfridman.com/jeff-bezos-transcript/
[2] https://transhumanaxiology.substack.com/p/is-earth-running-out-of-resources
[3] https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/how-many-humans-solar-system-dyson-sphere.html