Links for 2024-03-11
AI:
Robot scaling laws: "training on more trajectories reduces position tracking error, which is a positive signal...larger context windows produce better policies, which suggests that our generative policy performs a form of in-context adaptation that improves with scale...tracking error monotonically decreases with model size." https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19469
DeepSeek-VL: An open-source Vision-Language (VL) Model designed for real-world vision and language understanding applications https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl
The technical report of Gemini 1.5 seems to be updated with additional details and was released on arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05530
MovieLLM: Enhancing Long Video Understanding with AI-Generated Movies https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01422
Amazon presents MAGID: An Automated Pipeline for Generating Synthetic Multi-modal Datasets https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03194
Deep learning models reveal sex differences in human functional brain organization that are replicable, generalizable, and behaviorally relevant https://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/deep-learning-models-reveal-sex.html
“There is no limit: Dario Amodei says that even without better algorithms, scaling will continue to lead to amazing improvements in AI models” https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1766615524132417937
AI safety's most concise summary ever https://x.com/AndrewCritchPhD/status/1767049190415237207
Miscellaneous:
Eric Drexler | Molecular Systems Engineering Platform: What, Why, and How? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjgjtAk-lws
A promising leap towards computers with light-speed capabilities https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2024/feb/photonics-device
Realization of fractional quantum Hall state with interacting photons https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17022
Titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V that's 3D printed with laser powder bed fusion into a novel lattice structure demonstrated +50% strength over the next strongest aerospace-grade alloy of similar density, on top of increased fracture toughness. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202308715
Politics:
How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers
“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán: Donald Trump will not be giving "a single penny" to fight Russian aggression in Ukraine.” https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1767107722070159649