Links for 2024-03-21
AI:
Teaching Claude 3 to prompt engineer itself. Claude 3 Opus is the first model that’s very good at prompt engineering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn8A3BxfplE
MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-To-Image With 1 Hour of Data! 🧠👁️ https://medarc-ai.github.io/mindeye2/
More on Devin: “Is the era of AI agents writing complex code systems without humans in the loop upon us?” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wovJBkfZ8rTyLoEKv/on-devin (see also: “I asked the Devin AI agent to go on reddit and start a thread where it will take website building requests / It did that, solving numerous problems along the way.” https://x.com/emollick/status/1770128785494700333)
Nvidia’s AI boom is only getting started. Just ask CEO Jensen Huang. https://www.fastcompany.com/91033514/nvidia-most-innovative-companies-2024
Why Nvidia, Google And Microsoft Are Betting Billions On Biotech’s AI Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzw7TXdXYtk
AGI Inches Closer - 5 Key Quotes: Altman, Huang and 'The Most Interesting Year' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPzp_sdCf2Y
“Follow-Your-Click: Transforming the way we animate images with just a click and a short prompt! New ImageToVideo model. Say goodbye to moving entire scenes and hello to precision and creativity.” https://follow-your-click.github.io/
DynamiCrafter: Animating Open-domain Images with Video Diffusion Priors https://github.com/Doubiiu/DynamiCrafter?tab=readme-ov-file
AI-generated food images look tastier than real ones https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-03-15-ai-generated-food-images-look-tastier-real-ones
Intel wins $8.5 billion in CHIPS Act grants as ‘historic’ semiconductor spending spree heats up https://fortune.com/2024/03/20/intel-chips-act-funding-biden-raimondo-commerce-semiconductors-packaging/
Miscellaneous:
A fantastic achievement from Neuralink. The biggest leap forward here isn’t that the brain can move a cursor (been done), but that the implant works seamlessly 24/7 in his own home on his own computer. https://x.com/neuralink/status/1770563939413496146
If someone is trading with you and you can't see why it would be in their best interest to do so, the trade is probably worse than it naively appears. The more the efficient market hypothesis holds true in a situation, and the higher the amount of optimization pressure, the more you should expect to be disappointed by a trade. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vyAZyYh3qsqcJwwPn/conditional-on-getting-to-trade-your-trade-wasn-t-all-that
Man spent years trying to create giant hybrid sheep to be "sold and hunted as trophies," federal prosecutors say https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giant-hybrid-sheep-for-hunting-scheme-jack-schubarth-federal-prosecutors/
Ukraine:
“K-2 combat group of the 54th Brigade released a video featuring a nearly complete destruction of an enemy armoured group. Footage shows how the engagement was controlled inside a command point.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgXuDOrYMew
“Ukraine just successfully deployed an FPV drone with a semi-autonomous targeting system, meaning it is far less vulnerable to electronic warfare (which jams the connection between the pilot and the drone) than traditional FPV drones.” https://x.com/sternenko/status/1770348417102819563
Ukraine’s minister of strategic industries, Oleksandr Kamyshin, said last month that Ukraine had deployed a locally made missile with a range of more than 400 miles (640km). He did not provide details. Air defense systems with high-precision missiles, similar to the U.S. and Norwegian-made Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS), are also being developed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/20/ukraine-weapons-industry-domestic-production/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/IVcZb]
Australia joins 'drone coalition' agreement to aid in Ukraine war effort https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/mar/21/australia-joins-drone-coalition-agreement-to-aid-in-ukraine-war-effort-video
Russian "missile production is machining-centric...fully reliant upon the CAD, CAM and CNC. In terms of hardware, Russian machining capacity relies upon the uninterrupted supply of spares, expendables and tooling from the U.S allied countries" [PDF] https://rhodus.com/how-does-russia-make-missiles