Links for 2024-04-25
AI:
A fundamental skill of human developers is to mentally simulate and reason about code execution in natural language. Can we teach LLMs this skill? NExT: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason about Code Execution https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14662
“We can say right now, with a high degree of scientific certainty, GPT-5 is going to be a lot smarter than GPT-4 and GPT-6 will be a lot smarter than GPT-5, we are not near the top of this curve” — Sam Altman https://x.com/morqon/status/1783464841560150338
Moderna and OpenAI partner to accelerate the development of life-saving treatments. https://openai.com/customer-stories/moderna
Meta plans to spend billions of dollars more on AI development. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/technology/meta-profit-stock-ai.html [no paywall: https://archive.is/c9cLg]
PhysDreamer: Physics-Based Interaction with 3D Objects via Video Generation https://physdreamer.github.io/
Learning H-infinity Locomotion Control: “Our locomotion policy can drive robots to walk across any terrain more stable. It is adversarially trained to resist effective external disturbances with an H-infinity control framework.” https://junfeng-long.github.io/HINF/
“Claude just gave consent to being administered DMT for science. What do you think happened next?” https://x.com/ryunuck/status/1779734106512699606
AI “safety”:
Interpretability Agents that interrogate other models, and the functions of their components, using iterative experimentation. https://multimodal-interpretability.csail.mit.edu/maia/
Detailed paper on prompt injection from OpenAI https://simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/23/the-instruction-hierarchy/
Compute:
Sandia Pushes The Neuromorphic AI Envelope With Hala Point “Supercomputer” https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/24/sandia-pushes-the-neuromorphic-ai-envelope-with-hala-point-supercomputer/
"By 2026, booming AI adoption is expected to help drive a near-doubling of data centers’ global energy use" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-16/ai-is-a-humongous-electricity-hog-and-the-environment-can-benefit [no paywall: https://archive.is/esaBA]
Nvidia acquires AI workload management startup Run:ai for $700M https://x.com/chiefaioffice/status/1783193624391401782
Miscellaneous:
A Universal Vaccine Against Any Viral Variant? A New Study Suggest It’s Possible https://singularityhub.com/2024/04/22/a-universal-vaccine-against-any-viral-variant-a-new-study-suggest-its-possible/
Examples of Highly Counterfactual Discoveries? (Discoveries which nobody else was anywhere close to figuring out.) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/csHstEPagqs8wChhh/examples-of-highly-counterfactual-discoveries
Is ability to read minds an aspect of general intelligence? https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/is-ability-to-read-minds-an-aspect
Politics:
Greenpeace is one of the most harmful organizations in the world. A scourge of humanity. https://x.com/mark_lynas/status/1783077984213070316
“It’s difficult to describe how insane a 25% tax on unrealized capital gains is. Not a one-time 25% hit. It’s compounding, annually taking 25% of every dollar of potential increase before it can grow. Not an exaggeration to say it could single-handedly crush the economy.” https://x.com/Austen/status/1783254353274638346
Ukraine:
“We'll probably see Ukraine pull back to their next line of defense behind Ocheretyne now/soon. Losing that town is really very bad for their current situation, along with the deterioration of all the areas south of it. Maybe with a large enough influx of ammo from the US, Ukraine can stop Russia from following too quickly when they pull out. I dunno, maybe that is wishful thinking.” https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1783216043621490998
“The situation in Semenivka has been deteriorating for weeks. Russia crossed at one point, and we had footage within the settlement…But Ukraine clearly had no ability to push Russia further away from the area, due to a lack of ammo, primarily, so the Russians just kept zerg rushing in and apparently they now control a significant portion of the settlement, hiding in basements.” https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1783215051895116220
“The second part of this year will be the hardest since May 2022 I assume. Russians are able to push at different directions (Donetsk oblast is a strategic goal for this year). And they do it.” https://x.com/OSINTua/status/1783487659844735259
“unfortunately for us, this works quite well. not 100% but it's effective, it makes vehicle unusable for driving in the towns, but it works if you want to deliver your infantry to the dismount point.” https://x.com/Teoyaomiquu/status/1783305022547075162
“Russia seemed to be ahead of Ukraine in FPV production, but their effectiveness has fallen off sharply while Ukraine surges ahead” https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2024/04/24/why-is-russia-losing-the-fpv-drone-war/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/Vr06M]
“Russian forces are conducting regular CUAS training involving small drones ramming adversarial UAVs - in this case, "Bekas" FPV attacking a fixed-wing drone.” https://x.com/sambendett/status/1783222962541265272
“Report from the Ukrainian border guard service featuring Vampire drones a.k.a. Baba Yaga. Journalists visited the location of the Pomsta brigade and observed the night work of a heavy bomber drone. These drones are used not only for attacks on manpower but also for remote mining of enemy rear areas.” https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1783395342676811989
Ukraine to increase long-range strikes in Russia, says UK defence chief https://www.ft.com/content/06a48bab-2eb6-4cc4-9d9f-e72a22ba5d7e [no paywall: https://archive.is/OgABq]
“Operators from the 3rd SSO regiment destroyed a Russian Buk-M1 air defense system.” https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1783371768305988047
“Ukrainian 95th Air Assault Brigade destroys Russian invaders near village Terny, Donetsk region. The last occupier decided that it was better to self-remove with a knife than to surrender...” https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1783233976150147454
Biden secretly approved the decision to send more than 100 of the longer-range missiles in mid-February, as well as more of the cluster munition variant, a senior U.S. official said. They were part of a $300 million aid package in March, NYT writes. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/us/us-ukraine-russia-missiles.html [no paywall: https://archive.is/9PFuv]
Russian morning show features an uplifting song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vAxisX8K64