Links for 2024-03-22
AI:
‘A landmark moment’: scientists use AI to design antibodies from scratch https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00846-7 [archived version: https://archive.is/i52WV]
Meta presents SceneScript, a novel method for reconstructing environments and representing the layout of physical spaces: SceneScript can directly infer a room’s geometry using end-to-end machine learning and represent it using language. SceneScript uses next-token prediction like an LLM, but instead of natural language, it predicts architectural tokens. To train it, Meta created a synthetic dataset of 100,000 unique indoor environments. https://ai.meta.com/blog/scenescript-3d-scene-reconstruction-reality-labs-research/
V3: The first AI capable of producing radio-quality music. https://www.suno.ai/blog/v3
Meta’s works on latent space planning/search https://x.com/tydsh/status/1770614875708166557
Reverse Training to Nurse the Reversal Curse https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13799
“Can we adaptively generate training environments with LLMs to help small embodied RL game agents learn useful skills that they are weak at? EnvGen, an effective+efficient framework in which an LLM progressively generates and adapts training environments based on feedback from the RL agent's intermediate successes/failures.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12014
Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews — “Our estimates suggest that 10.6% of ICLR 2024 review sentences and 16.9% for EMNLP have been substantially modified by ChatGPT” https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183
Common Corpus, the largest collection of fully open corpus on HuggingFace: nearly 500b words (600-700b tokens) in public domain. https://www.wired.com/story/proof-you-can-train-ai-without-slurping-copyrighted-content/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/Cl8yZ]
Compute:
Samsung wants to bring chips with glass substrate to the market, and fast https://www.techspot.com/news/102286-samsung-wants-bring-chips-glass-substrate-market-fast.html
Physicists Finally Find a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Can Do https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-finally-find-a-problem-only-quantum-computers-can-do-20240312/
Miscellaneous:
Surgeons in Boston transplanted a kidney from a genetically engineered pig into an ailing 62-year-old man, the first procedure of its kind. Organs from genetically engineered pigs one day may make dialysis obsolete. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/03/first-ever-transplant-of-pig-kidney-to-patient-a-success/
Bill Gates’ TerraPower plans to build first US next-generation nuclear plant https://www.ft.com/content/418907d1-d497-439c-9800-eb814226ab71 [no paywall: https://archive.is/QJNCH]
“I’m very skeptical about the idea that accumulation of somatic mutations could be the cause of aging. However, in this study authors demonstrated how strikingly accurate rate of mutations accumulation between species correlate (inversely) with species lifespan.” https://x.com/SsJankauskas/status/1769090729475772550
“My PhD thesis: Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6dd4b4cAWQLDJEuHw/my-phd-thesis-algorithmic-bayesian-epistemology
Ukraine:
Want to know how Ukraine can resist Russia in 2024? Look to Bilohorivka https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/03/20/want-to-know-how-ukraine-can-resist-russia-in-2024-look-to-bilohorivka/
Russia has carried out the largest combined attack on Ukraine's energy system since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Ukrenergo reports. Hundreds of thousands of homes are currently without power. The most critical regions are Kharkiv and Dnipro. https://kyivindependent.com/russia-launches-large-scale-missile-drone-attack-against-ukraine/
Video of the Russian attack on a Ukrainian hydroelectric power plant. https://x.com/wolski_jaros/status/1771116299290104186
Kremlin says Russia ‘in a state of war’ in Ukraine for first time https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240322-kremlin-says-russia-says-in-a-state-of-war-in-ukraine
US urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries — "Washington is also concerned that if Ukraine keeps hitting Russian facilities, including many that are hundreds of miles from the border, Russia could retaliate by lashing out at energy infrastructure relied on by the west." https://www.ft.com/content/98f15b60-bc4d-4d3c-9e57-cbdde122ac0c [no paywall: https://archive.is/nN6Bh]