Links for 2024-03-28
Rendering:
Octree-GS: Towards Consistent Real-time Rendering with LOD-Structured 3D Gaussians https://city-super.github.io/octree-gs/
2D Gaussian Splatting for Geometrically Accurate Radiance Fields https://surfsplatting.github.io/
3D Gaussian Splatting - Explained! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQcrZHvrEnU (This is from November 2023. If you check his channel, you can see how fast this stuff is moving. January 2024: 3D Scanning Changed Again. NeRFs Are SO Back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olos5h8fmXE Per the above links, I guess we’re back at Gaussian splatters now?)
Comp4D, compositional 4D scene synthesis from text input. https://vita-group.github.io/Comp4D/
AI:
Amazon is investing $2.75 billion more on artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, the tech giant’s largest outside investment ever. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-27/amazon-invests-additional-2-75-billion-in-ai-startup-anthropic [no paywall: https://archive.is/I5IF1]
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus has overtaken OpenAI's GPT-4 in performance, leading the Elo ratings on Chatbot Arena. https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboard
U.S. agriculture is increasingly roboticized. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/farming-goes-high-tech/
The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of the Deeper Layers: Finds minimal degradation of performance of LLMs on various QA benchmarks until after a large fraction (up to half) of the layers are removed. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17887
Hallucinations of AI Science Models https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2024/03/26/hallucinations-of-ai-science-models/
Google AI could soon use a person’s cough to diagnose disease https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00869-0 [archived version: https://archive.is/HoNH5]
MyVLM: Personalizing VLMs for User-Specific Queries https://snap-research.github.io/MyVLM/
Technology:
Penn Scientists Create Novel Technique to Form Human Artificial Chromosomes https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2024/march/a-novel-technique-to-form-human-artificial-chromosomes
Researchers Are Building Universal Exoskeletons Anyone Can Use https://singularityhub.com/2024/03/22/researchers-are-building-universal-exoskeletons-anyone-can-use/
“Nuclear fusion by inertial confinement has seen dramatic progress in the past year years. After their big headlines in 2022, the National Ignition Facility has managed to pretty reliably reproduce ignition, and more recently, First Light Fusion collaborated with Sandia Labs on a remarkable experiment.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XRSBA9elm8
Miscellaneous:
Practically-A-Book Review: Rootclaim $100,000 Lab Leak Debate — “I watched 15 hours of COVID origins arguments so you don't have to - but you should!” https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-rootclaim
“FTX is on track to repay its customers up to two-fifths more than the initial value of their claims as administrators for the collapsed exchange capitalise on surging prices of cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence assets. Customers are likely to be repaid as much as 120-to-140 per cent of what their assets were worth on the day of FTX’s bankruptcy, according to two people with knowledge of the restructuring negotiations, owing to the rising value of assets like bitcoin and its stake in AI start-up Anthropic.” https://www.ft.com/content/ee1579c1-9837-4262-bafa-053cde94e538 [no paywall: https://archive.is/D0mny]
Japan nappy maker shifts from babies to adults https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68672186
“Orthopedic surgery office based decision making isn’t easy …” https://x.com/hjluks/status/1772297027948253453
Ukraine:
“The Ukrainian Air Force performed a precision strike using presumably JDAM missiles against a Russian command post in the occupied part of Kherson region. The missiles perfectly struck the building and leveled it altogether.” https://x.com/Tendar/status/1772996047633080406