AI:
GoEX: Perspectives and Designs Towards a Runtime for Autonomous LLM Applications — Presents a runtime for LLMs with intuitive undo and damage confinement abstractions, enabling the safer deployment of LLM agents in practice. Compiles many abstract concerns down to the level of verifiable system properties. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06921
Learning agile soccer skills for a bipedal robot with deep reinforcement learning https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adi8022
Body Design and Gait Generation of Chair-Type Asymmetrical Tripedal Low-rigidity Robot https://shin0805.github.io/chair-type-tripedal-robot/
Marco Hutter Wants to Solve Robotics’ Hard Problems — The AI Institute’s new Zurich head will focus on reliable, mobile robots https://spectrum.ieee.org/marco-hutter-ai-institute
People's success rate in distinguishing between human-generated and AI-generated online reviews was on a par with a coin toss. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11002-024-09729-3
Scaling Laws for Data Filtering -- Data Curation cannot be Compute Agnostic https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07177
Scaling (Down) CLIP: A Comprehensive Analysis of Data, Architecture, and Training Strategies https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08197
Urban Architect: Steerable 3D Urban Scene Generation with Layout Prior https://urbanarchitect.github.io/
Neuroscience:
Connecting lab-grown brain cells provides insight into how our own brains work https://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/4505/
The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision https://www.wired.com/story/the-next-frontier-for-brain-implants-is-artificial-vision-neuralink-elon-musk/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/NDWEs]
Israel:
Onboard footage from Israeli Air Force aircraft last night, seen here downing multiple Iranian drones and cruise missiles. https://x.com/idfonline/status/1779510830507217068
"Arab countries quietly passed along intelligence about Tehran’s attack plans, opened their airspace to warplanes, shared radar tracking information or, in some cases, supplied their own forces to help, officials said." https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/how-the-u-s-forged-a-fragile-middle-eastern-alliance-to-repel-irans-israel-attack-4a1fbc00 [no paywall: https://archive.is/O8tS1]
Ukraine:
Drone-on-drone combat in Ukraine https://x.com/sambendett/status/1779491324535656644
What’s left of Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. https://x.com/RALee85/status/1779770598383882370
"...the saturation of drones, many with thermal cameras that work at night, has shrunk the space where troops can move safely without being spotted — leading to high casualties and, in recent months, largely preventing either side from making major breakthroughs." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/14/ukraine-drones-russia-war-skies/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/CNY15]
“The tactic of destroying Ukraine’s infrastructure to ‘plunge Ukraine into darkness’ and drive 20 million Ukrainian refugees to Europe was likewise openly discussed and continues to unfold. Likewise, the mass murder of Ukrainians was openly promoted and is being carried out.” https://cepa.org/article/kremlin-glee-as-us-dithers-on-lifesaving-ukraine-aid/
One European official, requesting anonymity to speak candidly said that the Biden "administration’s pathological fear of escalation and of Ukrainian success is one major reason for the death of so many Ukrainians." https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4591008-us-ukraine-strategy-nato-future/
“When Vice President Harris met privately with Volodymyr Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference in February, she told the Ukrainian leader something he didn’t want to hear: Refrain from attacking Russian oil refineries…” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/15/ukraine-russia-oil-refinery-attacks/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/o2gl3]
Other readers: if you work with AI every day (ChatGPT, other LLM models, Midjourney, machine learning and predictive analytics) , and keep up to date of arXiv, do you ever get the feeling you're living in a separate universe from what the media reports about AI?
Haven't USA replaced F16s that other nations are lend-leasing to UA?