AI:
LUMIERE: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Realistic Video Generation https://lumiere-video.github.io/
AutoRT: Embodied Foundation Models for Large Scale Orchestration of Robotic Agents https://auto-rt.github.io/
DiffusionGPT: LLM-Driven Text-to-Image Generation System https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10061
GPT-Newspaper: This project combines six agents to autonomously build a newspaper - content, outline, everything! https://github.com/assafelovic/gpt-newspaper
Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and others partner with US government on AI research program https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-microsoft-google-and-others-partner-with-us-government-on-ai-research-program-160111850.html
“Remember: AI killing us all is not the worst outcome” https://twitter.com/Kat__Woods/status/1749333849668976665
Miscellaneous:
The fountain of youth is … a T cell? Scientists have discovered that CAR T cells, traditionally used in cancer treatment, can be engineered to fight aging by eliminating senescent cells. https://www.cshl.edu/the-fountain-of-youth-is-a-t-cell/
Foundations of Vector Retrieval: This 200+ page monograph covers fundamental concepts along with advanced data structures and algorithms for vector retrieval. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09350
History is Written by the Losers: “The judgments of the historian do not serve the margins. They do not even serve the masses. They are a weapon in the hand of defeated elites, the voices of men and women who could be in power, but are not.” https://scholars-stage.org/history-is-written-by-the-losers/
Is the Chinese room intelligent if you just speed it up a million-fold? https://lironshapira.blogspot.com/2011/02/searles-chinese-room-intelligence-in.html
Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. What if this was not accidental? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/23/prehistoric-handprints-finger-missing-ritually-removed
Ukraine:
“Major incident in Russian town of Tuapse on the eastern shore of the Black Sea. It is believed that the Rosneft plant, one of the oldest in Russia which processes oil from several oil fields, caught fire after an unidentified flying object struck one of the oil tanks.” https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1750274050830549430
“The strike against Russian oil facilities in Tuapse, Russia, only days after the successful strike against the Ust-Luga terminal removes all doubt that we are dealing with a targeted effort to eliminate all major Russian oil and gas ports, so that they are rendered useless for any operations.” https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1750411859880993098
Some NATO allies restricted intel sharing with Slovakia – and it can even get worse if disgraced former police chief Tibor Gašpar, accused of running an organized crime group, takes over as Slovakia's new intelligence chief. https://vsquare.org/robert-fico-tibor-gaspar-intelligence-police-jan-kuciak/
Russians selling stolen property of people who fled or got killed https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1750224310407450796
Handelsblatt reports that the UK has offered the German government a deal whereby Germany would supply the UK with an undisclosed number of Taurus KEPD-350s which would give the UK in return the room to supply Ukraine with more Storm Shadows. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/ukraine-hilfe-london-bietet-scholz-einen-ausweg-aus-dem-taurus-dilemma/100009700.html
“Reagan would today be leading the effort to arm democratic Ukraine in its war of self-defense against Kremlin aggression…But today, just 35 percent of self-identified Republicans support military aid for democratic Ukraine in its war of self-defense” https://providencemag.com/2024/01/extremes-pulling-america-down-a-dangerous-path/
Brian Riedl is correct here. Unfortunately, he torpedoed his own credibility by adopting a position on sodomy even more radical than that of the 1980s Democrats.