Links for 2024-02-05
AI:
General Purpose Humanoid Robots? Bill Gates Is a Believer https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/25/general-purpose-humanoid-robots-bill-gates-is-a-believer/
Google Deepmind presents Generative Expressive Robot Behaviors using Large Language Models https://generative-expressive-motion.github.io/
“Comprehensive evaluations show that the current language agents are not yet capable of handling such complex planning tasks-even GPT-4 only achieves a success rate of 0.6%. Language agents struggle to stay on task, use the right tools to collect information, or keep track of multiple constraints.” https://osu-nlp-group.github.io/TravelPlanner/
Boximator: Generating Rich and Controllable Motions for Video Synthesis https://boximator.github.io/
Miscellaneous:
Hyperstimuli are Understimulating: Pleasure is satisfying, and satisfaction makes you stop. https://www.sympatheticopposition.com/p/hyperstimuli-are-understimulating
The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-quest-to-decode-the-mandelbrot-set-maths-famed-fractal-20240126
Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7128
“Guanxi (simplified Chinese: 关系; traditional Chinese: 關係; pinyin: guānxi) is a term used in Chinese culture to describe an individual's social network of mutually beneficial personal and business relationships.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi
Ukraine:
“Ukraine: first you dodge a 500 kg bomb explosion; you're grabbing a trailer coffee 5 minutes later.” https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1754207591868108871
“Several Ukrainian sources cite the worsening of the situation in Avdiivka today. Russian armed formations managed to enter the town from the northeast and find a foothold in the buildings.” https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1754284192022593843
Russia Has Massed 500 Tanks For An Attack On Kupyansk. Thousands Of Ukrainian Drones Await Them. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/03/russia-has-massed-500-tanks-for-an-attack-on-kupyansk-thousands-of-ukrainian-drones-await-them/
“Additional footage just emerged from a disastrous Russian attack north of Avdiivka late last year.” https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1754229542648963492
“Here are the losses for yesterday. I completed compiling them. Its the most I've ever found in a day. 103” https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1754179970849493192
The Netherlands will supply Ukraine with 6 more F-16 fighter jets which makes a total of 24 fighter jets. The additional 6 are now made ready for transfer. https://twitter.com/DefensieMin/status/1754495514710597849
A story about the Ukrainian children taken to Russia for “re-education” (which forms basis of indictment of Putin for war crimes), the humiliating treatment many faced there, and the demands to bring them back as soon as possible https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/04/they-told-me-were-all-russians-re-education-of-ukrainian-children
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