Links for 2024-03-10
AI:
Generalized biomolecular modeling and design with RoseTTAFold All-Atom https://singularityhub.com/2024/03/08/this-ai-can-design-biomolecular-machines-with-atomic-precision/
“Inflection-2.5 approaches GPT-4’s performance, but used only 40% of the amount of compute for training.” https://inflection.ai/inflection-2-5
Trial and Error: Exploration-Based Trajectory Optimization for LLM Agents https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02502
Learning to Decode Collaboratively with Multiple Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03870
Social learning: Collaborative learning with large language models https://blog.research.google/2024/03/social-learning-collaborative-learning.html
MIT spinout DataCebo helps companies bolster their datasets by creating synthetic data that mimic the real thing https://news.mit.edu/2024/using-generative-ai-improve-software-testing-datacebo-0305
AI reveals prostate cancer is not just one disease https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-03-05-ai-reveals-prostate-cancer-not-just-one-disease
Researchers in China are exploring whether neural networks can develop their own language for images without the intermediary of human language. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-emergence-machine-language-intelligence-neural.html (paper: https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/11/4/nwad317/7505147)
"Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton now thinks there is a 1 in 10 chance everyone will be dead from AI in 5-20 years https://www.ft.com/content/c64592ac-a62f-4e8e-b99b-08c869c83f4b [no paywall: https://archive.is/Q8obS]
Miscellaneous:
Scott Alexander: “I'm against the claim that "there is no such thing as biological race" - it's one of those isolated demands for rigor that we don’t stand for around here. You can do cluster analysis on a bunch of genomes and circle the nice, legible shapes representing Europeans, Africans, etc. People use the claim “there’s no such thing as biological race” for a lot of purposes, mostly to confuse and deceive people…” https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-should-we-think-about-race-and
"Eventually, a combination of embryo selection and gene editing may be essential just to stay where we are now. This is because the modern world has been quietly fostering the accumulation of deleterious mutations in all of us." https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-and-civilization/202403/ivf-embryo-selection-and-the-case-for-caution
“…baby chicks continue to act as if object permanence is true, even if they have seen thousands of examples where it is false and zero where it is true over the course of their short lives.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/v9qj2LHLh2ALDGKyA/woods-new-preprint-on-object-permanence
Black holes might be dark stars with layers: New solution found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej9F0hh8rgk
Self-Destructing Circuits and More Security Schemes - Chip fingerprints, probe detectors, and smeared signals offer a last line of defense https://spectrum.ieee.org/hardwired-to-self-destruct
Pulsejet Drone Flies, Could Have Big Impact On Cost Of Future Weapons https://www.twz.com/news-features/pulsejet-drone-flies-could-have-big-impact-on-cost-of-future-weapons
Compute:
DEI killed the CHIPS Act https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act/
“The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The road runs to the two mines that is the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers. There are no alternative sources known.” https://x.com/emollick/status/1766504587781878196
Ukraine:
“Destruction of TWO 🇺🇦Ukrainian M901 launchers of the MIM-104 Patriot complex and truck MAN KAT1 by 🇷🇺Russian Iskander missile near the village Sergiivka, Donetsk region.” https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1766445017046904864 (skepticism: https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1766485479602450775)
Following the capture of Avdiivka in Eastern Ukraine, Russia continues to advance. Ukraine has faced two major problems: defenselessness against Russian air attacks with devastating glide bombs, and the lack of artillery ammunition. https://cepa.org/article/ukraine-front-line-report-battered-but-not-broken/
UK Foreign Minister David Cameron stated that London is ready to help Berlin solve the problem with the supply of Taurus missiles to Ukraine https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/taurus-ringtausch-vorschlag-100.html
France is building an alliance of countries open to potentially sending Western troops to Ukraine. https://www.politico.eu/article/france-finds-baltic-allies-in-its-spat-with-germany-over-ukraine-aid-sikorski-nato-macron-troops-war/