Links for 2024-01-22
AI:
“Can LLM engage actively in 3D environments and dynamically gather multisensory interactive data, including g visual, audio, tactile, and thermal? Introducing MultiPLY, a multisensory embodied LLM that seamlessly connects words, actions, and perceptions!” https://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/multiply/
This video recounts an incident that occurred at OpenAI in which flipping a single minus sign led the RLHF process to make GPT-2 only output sexually explicit continuations. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xD3wymX24BpqezBpw/the-true-story-of-how-gpt-2-became-maximally-lewd
Apple presents AIM which potentially represents a new frontier for training large-scale vision models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08541
Roboflow supervision is the open-source swiss army knife for everything Computer Vision. https://github.com/roboflow/supervision
Miscellaneous:
An Introduction To The Mandelbrot Set That Doesn't Mention Complex Numbers https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CMiDbAyroRG7kLJNW/an-introduction-to-the-mandelbrot-set-that-doesn-t-mention
Essay about living with schizophrenia by a professional philosopher. https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/advance-article/doi/10.1093/schbul/sbad173/7517011
Politics:
For most of the 20th century, the US had the largest and most advanced machine tool industry in the world. Today, its 5th largest, and US factories are full of machines built elsewhere. https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-happened-to-the-us-machine-tool
Trump doesn’t say if he would defend Taiwan. Says Taiwan "took our business away". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48bTwpGgYBA&t=10s
Chinese Military Corruption & Readiness - The Rocket Force, Purges & PLA Readiness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhI_tTEE2ZQ
How Group Chats Rule the World — They quietly became the de facto spaces to share dumb jokes, grief or even plans for an insurrection. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/magazine/group-chats.html [https://archive.is/uFMdh]
Special address by Javier Milei, President of Argentina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfcd0gWNIog (top quotes: https://twitter.com/Milei_Explains/status/1747753690616811966)
Ukraine:
This is what war in 2024 looks like. https://twitter.com/Mike_Eckel/status/1749037129743704403
Operations at damaged Russian fuel complex seen resuming within weeks, say analysts https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/analysts-see-russian-fuel-complex-resuming-operations-within-weeks-after-2024-01-22/
The Ukrainian military: North Korea is Russia's "biggest arms supplier at present," and "without their help, the situation would have been catastrophic" for Russia. https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/01/19/mapping-north-koreas-discreet-artillery-ammo-route-to-russia/
How one officer class offers a glimpse into Russia’s military amid Ukraine war https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-russia-officers/