Links for 2024-02-10
AI:
More Agents Is All You Need: Finds that, simply via a sampling-and-voting method, the performance of LLMs scales with the number of agents instantiated https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05120
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeks as much as $7 trillion for new AI chip project https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/09/openai-ceo-sam-altman-reportedly-seeking-trillions-of-dollars-for-ai-chip-project.html
CodeIt: Self-Improving Language Models with Prioritized Hindsight Replay https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04858
“When the fruits of the recent generative AI boom get properly integrated into…legacy assistant bots [like Siri and Alexa], they will surely get much more interesting. ‘A year from now, I would expect the experience of using a computer to look very different,’ says Shah, who says he built vimGPT in only a few days. ‘Most apps will require less clicking and more chatting, with agents becoming an integral part of browsing the web.'” https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-tested-next-gen-ai-assistant/ [https://archive.is/qxmpV]
“Introducing TEXterity ~ our method for simultaneous tactile estimation and control for extrinsic dexterity” https://sites.google.com/view/texterity
Neuroscience:
Sensors stimulate sensation in prosthetic limbs https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-sensors-sensation-prosthetic-limbs.html
Brain control of bimanual movement enabled by recurrent neural networks https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-51617-3
The Layer 7 Cortical Interface: A Scalable and Minimally Invasive Brain–Computer Interface Platform https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.02.474656v2
A real-time, high-performance brain-computer interface for finger decoding and quadcopter control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.06.578107v1
Physics:
Gravity helps show strong force strength in the proton https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1032194
“The greatest discovery of all time might be that linearity in quantum mechanics implies the existence of entire universes, branches of the wavefunction, which lose contact through decoherence.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11661
Decoherence and Quantum Measurement: The Missing Lecture https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.02391
Ukraine:
Avdiivka, Russian soldier films bodies of his comrades scattered at the approach to the coke plant, which has just been hit. https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1756107138135728524
Putin said the Poles forced Hitler to attack them in 1939. https://twitter.com/IlyaSomin/status/1755967482060320872
MFA statement on President Vladimir Putin’s 10 lies on Poland and Ukraine which were not rectified by Tucker Carlson (interview of 8 February 2024) https://www.gov.pl/web/diplomacy/mfa-statement-on-president-vladimir-putins-10-lies-on-poland-and-ukraine-which-were-not-rectified-by-tucker-carlson-interview-of-8-february-2024
Putin's Interview With Tucker Carlson Was Filled With Lies, Here Are Some Egregious Examples https://x.com/khodorkovsky_en/status/1756041473630360047
“Third, I don't think we can understand this interview as some sort of functionalist strategic communication exercise at all...which means this interview was about what Vladimir Putin himself thought rather than what he thought would sell best. That's incredibly unusual for an interview like this.” https://x.com/JulianWaller/status/1755987514001653916
“Russian Telegram channels reported that the interview with Carlson and Carlson himself was not to Putin's liking, and the interview itself was considered a failure” https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1756043266804301881
German politician: “War must be brought to Russia”... “Russian military facilities and headquarters must be destroyed,” said Kiesewetter: “We must do everything to enable Ukraine to destroy not only oil refineries in Russia, but ministries...command posts,” he emphasized. https://www.merkur.de/politik/russland-krieg-putin-ukraine-waffen-deutschland-forderung-appell-kiesewetter-cdu-zr-92825380.html