Links for 2024-02-24
AI:
Jeff Bezos and Nvidia join OpenAI and Microsoft in backing a humanoid robot unicorn valued at $2 billion, sources say https://fortune.com/2024/02/23/jeff-bezos-nvidia-openai-microsoft-robot-unicorn-figureai-funding-round/
“We are getting much larger context windows, we are getting GPT-4 level inference at GPT-3.5 level costs, and Google is poised to have a clearly superior free-level offering to OpenAI.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N2Y664LX6pQ8rFiz2/the-one-and-a-half-gemini
A new modality as a foreign language? AnyGPT: Unified Multimodal LLM with Discrete Sequence Modeling https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12226
“Self-Correcting Self-Consuming Loops for Generative Model Training” https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07087
Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11366
“We will see that a lot of weird behaviors and problems of LLMs actually trace back to tokenization. We'll go through a number of these issues, discuss why tokenization is at fault, and why someone out there ideally finds a way to delete this stage entirely.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zduSFxRajkE
Google: “Gemini image generation got it wrong. We'll do better.” https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-image-generation-issue/
Miscellaneous:
Mind-reading devices are revealing the brain’s secrets https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00481-2
What happens when genome sequencing data is ‘too cheap to meter’? https://gencove.com/blog/what-happens-when-genome-sequencing-data-is-too-cheap-to-meter
Antimatter: Scientists freeze positronium atoms with lasers https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68349448
Who Does Polygenic Selection Help? https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/who-does-polygenic-selection-help
Physicists at Paderborn University have used complex computer simulations to develop a new design for significantly more efficient solar cells than previously available. https://www.uni-paderborn.de/en/news-item/132624
Ukraine:
Dramatic footage shows a Russian A-50 early warning and control aircraft intercepted by several air defence missiles resulting in its destruction. https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1761086281893687500
The largest metallurgic plant in Russia was attacked last night by Ukrainian drones. https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1761279812545700235
Bilohorivka BMP Massacre: Ten Russian BMP losses. https://x.com/moklasen/status/1761076886682112216
Polish statement regarding the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1oFTkh8NlY
“Ukrainians have a very good reason to continue their fight. They are fighting for something as dear to their hearts as possible – their freedom, their country, their families.” https://x.com/GLandsbergis/status/1761108581032612217
NATO stands with Ukraine. https://x.com/jensstoltenberg/status/1761312422197907901
The UK will spend £245 million throughout the next year to procure and invigorate supply chains to produce urgently needed artillery ammunition for Ukraine. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-boost-ukraines-artillery-reserves-with-245-million-munitions-package
Politics:
Argentina markets double down on Milei as investors 'start to believe' https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-markets-double-down-milei-investors-start-believe-2024-02-23/
Le Figaro: the spray painting of stars of David in Paris was an operation piloted by the Russian FSB https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/etoiles-de-david-taguees-a-paris-l-operation-etait-pilotee-par-le-fsb-russe-20240223
Estonia detains 10 people suspected of committing sabotage on orders from Russia https://apnews.com/article/estonia-russia-sabotage-tension-hybrid-operation-629e777acfdad169e7516dbe89685406