Links for 2024-03-31
AI:
GPT3.5 can outperform GPT4 through an agentic workflow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sal78ACtGTc
What's next for AI agents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBBe1pk8hf4
Answer Engine Tutorial: The Open-Source Perplexity Search Replacement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GanTUWLUUWQ
🔍MagicLens: image retrieval models following open-ended instructions. https://open-vision-language.github.io/MagicLens/
AI Predicts Mouse Movement With 95% Accuracy Using Brain Data https://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/en/news/article/20240321-64622/
The Fight for AI Talent: Pay Million-Dollar Packages and Buy Whole Teams https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-fight-for-ai-talent-pay-million-dollar-packages-and-buy-whole-teams-c370de2b [no paywall: https://archive.is/Qmd3W]
“A short explanation for why I believe building Superintelligence now would lead to human extinction, and what to do to prevent it.” https://cognition.cafe/p/preventing-extinction-from-superintelligence
AI song “Feel the AGI” created with the Suno AI music generation model. https://x.com/agifirealarm/status/1774152616278192429
Neuroscience:
Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00930-y [archived: https://archive.is/nPX3y]
Research from the University of Pittsburgh Neural Engineering using BCIs reveals how learning new behaviors leaves a 'memory trace' in the primary motor cortex, enabling joint learning without interference. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)00298-7
Salt-Sized Sensors Mimic the Brain — An array of tiny wireless nodes could someday find their way into brain-machine interfaces https://spectrum.ieee.org/brain-machine-interface-2667619198
World's first high-resolution brain model created with 3D printer https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-world-high-resolution-brain-3d.html
Meet the Designer Behind Neuralink’s Surgical Robot https://www.wired.com/story/designer-behind-neuralinks-surgical-robot-afshin-mehin/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/IT8Hw]
Some Things That Increase Blood Flow to the Brain https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9bYbuAzhzuGiQjZRe/some-things-that-increase-blood-flow-to-the-brain
Astronomy
A faster spinning Earth may cause timekeepers to subtract a second from world clocks https://apnews.com/article/leap-second-subtract-melting-ice-clocks-74eaac47b9c429910723a604897032a4
An article by Stephen Wolfram on the history, science, and mathematics of calculating solar eclipses. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/when-exactly-will-the-eclipse-happen-a-multimillennium-tale-of-computation/
“What did Einstein do after discovering general relativity in 1915? Sit around and complain about the Lord playing dice with the universe? Not quite…” https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/112164307512936752
Biology:
"Patients with certain types of cardiac arrest who are treated with a new procedure, called ECPR, have a nearly 100 % chance of being revived, with their brain function intact, if treatment is administered within 30 minutes of collapse." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/magazine/ecpr-cardiac-arrest-cpr.html [no paywall: https://archive.is/DKudw]
What happens to your brain throughout your life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvSdYUYC24c
Unlocking mRNA’s cancer-fighting potential https://news.mit.edu/2024/strand-therapeutics-unlocks-mrna-cancer-fighting-potential-0327
“…evidence that frameshifted proteins are notably more likely than you would ever have expected by chance to have similar functions to the proteins produced by their nonshifted parent sequences…” https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/shifting-views-frameshifting [archived version: https://archive.is/0zt3i]
Ukraine:
France will deliver hundreds of armored vehicles and a new batch of Aster 30 missiles for the SAMP/T air defense system to Ukraine, Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu said. https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/03/30/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-paris-va-fournir-a-kiev-des-centaines-de-blindes-et-des-missiles-selon-sebastien-lecornu_6223832_3210.html?#id-1447018
Taiwan’s Top Diplomat Says U.S. Aid to Ukraine Is Critical for Deterring China https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/us/politics/taiwan-china-ukraine-aid.html [no paywall: https://archive.is/2lwdS]