Links for 2024-04-13
AI:
Autonomous Evaluation and Refinement of Digital Agents — Improves WebArena's GPT4 SotA agent by 30%+ and CogAgent in iOS by 75% without any extra supervision but only a VLM-based evaluator https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06474
Remembering Transformer for Continual Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07518
Towards a universal mechanism for successful deep learning https://www.biu.ac.il/en/article/385695
Explosive growth from AI automation: A review of the arguments https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11690
“AI is smarter than you think with Shane Legg of Google DeepMind” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-is-smarter-than-you-think-with-shane-legg-of/id1150510297?i=1000651374339
How We Picture Bayesian Agents https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TiBsZ9beNqDHEvXt4/how-we-picture-bayesian-agents
Miscellaneous:
Discovery of the first fractal molecule in nature https://www.mpg.de/21811459/0410-terr-discovery-of-the-first-fractal-molecule-in-nature-153410-x
New quantum material promises over 190% quantum efficiency in solar cells https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1040344
Mediterranean marine worm has developed eyes “as big as millstones" https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2024/04/mediterranean-marine-worm-has-developed-eyes-as-big-as-millstones/
This Company Is Growing Mini Livers Inside People to Fight Liver Disease https://singularityhub.com/2024/04/11/this-company-is-growing-mini-livers-inside-people-to-fight-liver-disease/
Politics:
“Iran has signalled to allies and western nations that it will retaliate against a suspected Israeli air strike on its Damascus consulate in a “calibrated” manner to keep an all-out regional conflict at bay, according to officials briefed on the talks...” https://www.ft.com/content/bdbc3ad0-376e-486f-a0be-fd6eea975d20 [no paywall: https://archive.is/8qF8b]
Ukraine:
US says China sending Russia engines for drones & cruise missiles, machine tools for ballistic missiles, chips for missiles, tanks & aircraft. Chinese & Russian groups working to jointly produce drones in Russia - partly based on newly declassified intel https://www.ft.com/content/ecd934b6-8a91-4b78-a360-9111f771f9b1 [no paywall: https://archive.is/Iw6W6] (Russia is a much bigger country than Ukraine, gets millions of rounds of ammunition from North Korea, drones and missiles from Iran, and now Chinese support, but is still struggling to make major progress months after the United States stopped supporting Ukraine. Embarrassing.)
“General Syrskyi's update on the eastern front: The situation on the Eastern Front has significantly worsened in recent days. This is primarily due to the significant intensification of the enemy's offensive actions after the presidential elections in the Russian Federation.” https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1779066491544965613
Germany will send another Patriot system to Ukraine. https://x.com/BMVg_Bundeswehr/status/1779135302776271134
Pokrovsk Raion offensive equipment loss numbers as of 12 April 2024: 1001 Russian losses vs. 159 Ukrainian losses https://x.com/naalsio26/status/1778951765733331168