Links for 2024-02-27
AI:
ChatMusician: Fostering Intrinsic Musical Abilities Into LLM https://shanghaicannon.github.io/ChatMusician/
Microsoft presents Orca-Math: A 7-billion-parameter SLM that achieves 86.81% on GSM8k without the need for multiple model calls or the use of verifiers, code execution or any other external tools. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14830
“Figure 01 is now completing real world tasks Everything is autonomous: Autonomous navigation & force-based manipulation; Learned vision model for bin detection & prioritization; Reactive bin manipulation (robust to pose variation); Generalizable to other pick/place tasks” https://x.com/Figure_robot/status/1762184059399377370
Like a Child, This Brain-Inspired AI Can Explain Its Reasoning https://singularityhub.com/2024/02/22/like-a-child-this-brain-inspired-ai-can-explain-its-reasoning/
OmniPred: Language Models as Universal Regressors https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14547
BeTAIL: Behavior Transformer Adversarial Imitation Learning from Human Racing Gameplay https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/BeTAIL/home
The LENS Project. By combining modern tools of Explainable AI, how much can we explain a ResNet50? https://serre-lab.github.io/Lens/
Mistral Large is out! A new flagship LLM. It outperforms GPT3.5 and LLaMa 2 70B on every benchmark. https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large/
Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/26/24083510/microsoft-mistral-partnership-deal-azure-ai
Miscellaneous:
Software tweak doubles computer processing speed, halves energy use https://newatlas.com/computers/smht-parallel-processing/
MIT engineers 3D print the electromagnets at the heart of many electronics https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-engineers-3d-print-electromagnets-solenoids-0223
“We knew using hexagonal boron nitride would lead to outstanding optical properties in our samples, none of us expected that it would also act a waveguide,” https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Media/News/Article/3678317/nrl-discovers-two-dimensional-waveguides/
An Interview with Scott Alexander: Disambiguating AI, brain emulations, Scott’s writing schedule, figuring out life with newborn twins, and a whole lot more. https://www.neonarrative.us/p/an-interview-with-scott-alexander
Ukraine:
“We can’t medivac our guys from the contact line anymore because we don’t have any artillery ammunition to suppress the Russians. We have to leave them to die” https://x.com/JimmySecUK/status/1761740793440596050
“When assessing the state of prepared fortifications post-Avdiivka and other key areas that might become frontlines this year, "disappointing" is probably the best description. The defenses are not as nearly good as the ones the Russians have built.” https://x.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1762421448985997744
“North Korea may have supplied Russia with up to 3 million 152mm artillery shells...Some North Korean factories which are producing for Russia are operating at full capacity, suggesting that supplies will continue to flow.” https://x.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1762487527322063239
Putting Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not ‘ruled out’ in the future, French leader says https://apnews.com/article/paris-conference-support-ukraine-zelenskyy-c458a1df3f9a7626128cdeb84050d469
French President Macron announced that France will supply Ukraine with more weapons, especially 'medium and long range missiles and bombs'. "To contradict the impression that things are falling apart, to reaffirm that we are not tired and that we are determined to thwart Russian aggression," he emphasized. https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/02/27/guerre-en-ukraine-emmanuel-macron-appelle-a-un-sursaut-pour-assurer-la-defaite-de-la-russie_6218776_3210.html
Macron: “This war is unfolding on our continent. What is at stake is our security as Europeans, our future.” https://x.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1762449801705127977
Nixon on Russia, predicting the present https://x.com/bopanc/status/1762383887945134185
Ukraine’s new air burst drones: 1. https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1762153957277696464 2. https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1762179297941262631 3. https://x.com/moklasen/status/1762192765901762648