Links for 2023-12-22
Using AI, MIT researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates https://news.mit.edu/2023/using-ai-mit-researchers-identify-antibiotic-candidates-1220
“Emu2 exhibits strong multimodal in-context learning abilities, even emerging to solve tasks that require on-the-fly reasoning, such as visual prompting and object-grounded generation.” https://baaivision.github.io/emu2/
New data shows Waymo crashes a lot less than human drivers https://www.understandingai.org/p/new-data-shows-waymo-crashes-a-lot
Google DeepMind announces Vision-Language Models as a Source of Rewards https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09187
Google announces Pixel Aligned Language Models https://jerryxu.net/PixelLLM/
Meta announces A Picture is Worth More Than 77 Text Tokens: Evaluating CLIP-Style Models on Dense Captions https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08578
An object-level foundation model for locating and identifying objects in images and videos https://glee-vision.github.io/
Learning RL policies and world models purely from action-free videos. https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10812
Holodeck, a promptable system that can generate diverse, customized, and interactive 3D simulated environments ready for Embodied AI 🤖 applications. https://yueyang1996.github.io/holodeck/
A robot that could replace some warehouse workers? evoBOT - The evolution of autonomous mobile robotic systems https://www.iml.fraunhofer.de/en/fields_of_activity/material-flow-systems/iot-and-embedded-systems/evobot.html
PathChat - a vision-language AI assistant for Pathology that can analyze histology images and answer diverse pathology-related queries. https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07814
Mapping the semantic void: Strange goings-on in GPT embedding spaces https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/c6uTNm5erRrmyJvvD/mapping-the-semantic-void-strange-goings-on-in-gpt-embedding
A thread about jigsaw puzzles https://mathstodon.xyz/@nervous_jesse/111495045213731487
Political links:
“Non-Western immigration to Northern European countries is morally indefensible.” https://twitter.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1737882187112886328
Just a single (former) forest strip near Stepove, north of Avdiivka. Killed Russian soldiers everywhere... https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1737760820807823761
Drones Everywhere: Constant Airstrikes! Military Medics Saving Troops in Avdiivka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMpMLxQoLUs
“The Biden administration is quietly signaling new support for seizing more than $300 billion in Russian central bank assets stashed in Western nations, and has begun urgent discussions with allies about using the funds to aid Ukraine’s war effort at a moment when financial support is waning, according to senior American and European officials.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/us/politics/russian-assets-ukraine.html [https://archive.is/gGbJX]
North Korea has delivered more than a thousand, and recently even more, containers of military equipment and ammunition to Russia, Julianne Smith, Permanent US Representative to NATO said in a briefing. https://www.state.gov/digital-press-briefing-with-ambassador-julianne-smith-u-s-permanent-representative-to-the-north-atlantic-treaty-organization-nato-2/
“Belgium suspected for years that a Flemish far-right politician was a Chinese intelligence asset but has lacked the legal basis to prosecute him, according to the country’s justice minister.” https://www.ft.com/content/b855b255-551a-4415-9ff4-9ae28764dfdf [https://archive.is/i2HXa]