Links for 2024-02-15
AI:
AI is everywhere – including countless applications you’ve likely never heard of https://theconversation.com/ai-is-everywhere-including-countless-applications-youve-likely-never-heard-of-222985
LLM Agents can Autonomously Hack Websites: “We further show a strong scaling law, with only GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 successfully hacking websites (73% and 7%, respectively). No open-source model successfully hacks websites.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06664
Machine assisted proof. ~ Terence Tao https://youtu.be/AayZuuDDKP0
Computing Power and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08797
Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04464
AnyTool: Self-Reflective, Hierarchical Agents for Large-Scale API Calls https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04253
AR glasses with multimodal AI nets funding from Pokémon GO creator https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/08/ar-glasses-with-multimodal-ai-attracts-funding-from-pokemon-go-founder/
Miscellaneous:
“The ability to accurately control the size of tens of billions of nanopillars over an unprecedentedly large flat lens using state-of-the-art semiconductor foundry processes is a nanofabrication feat that opens exciting new opportunities for space science and technology,” https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2024/01/metalens-meets-stars
New Fundamental Physics Uncovered – Experiments Prove the Existence of a New Type of Magnetism https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1034216
“Mean-field game theory is the study of strategic decision making by small interacting agents in very large populations. It lies at the intersection of game theory with stochastic analysis and control theory.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean-field_game_theory
Politics:
“Researchers gave teenage girls infant simulators (lifelike dolls), thinking if the girls realized how annoying babies are, they'd be less likely to get pregnant. Instead, girls who took care of infant simulators were more likely to later become pregnant.” https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/the-infant-simulator-fiasco
“One study by the German Economic Institute (IW) found the army had been underfunded relative to Nato standards by at least €394bn between 1990 and the early 2020s.” https://www.ft.com/content/51cf54ed-55df-4369-bdef-6f98be17d26c [https://archive.is/F07kF]
Trump's long history of fawning over Putin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urW-LzeTpS8
East/West Germany's phantom borders https://x.com/tomaspueyo/status/1757777718509195512
Ukraine:
"Out of 4,000 people, a brigade, 30% remain". Russian soldiers film the battlefield just east of Krasnohorivka, to the northeast of Avdiivka. "Corpses everywhere. They're all ours." "There's war, but this... it was a meatgrinder here." https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1757919262889685150
Ukraine says it is withdrawing some troops in Avdiivka to more secure positions https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-it-is-withdrawing-some-troops-avdiivka-more-secure-positions-2024-02-15/
An oil depot in the Kursk Region, Russia, is on fire. https://x.com/Tendar/status/1757897772492009704
“Video from Ukraine’s GUR of loitering munition and drone-dropped munitions strikes on a reported Russian Kasta-2E2 surveillance radar near the border.” https://x.com/RALee85/status/1758017717506822378
Netherlands joins coalition to supply Ukraine with advanced drones https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/netherlands-joins-coalition-supply-ukraine-with-advanced-drones-2024-02-14/ [https://archive.is/ts0HK]
Putin's Biggest Lies from His Interview with Tucker Carlson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E26Rm04vGso
Putin says he prefers Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the White House and dismissed questions about Mr Biden's age and mental health, saying when they had last met in 2021, he had not noticed anything peculiar. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68302071
Putin Says He Was Not Impressed by Tucker Carlson https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-says-he-was-not-impressed-by-tucker-carlson