Links for 2024-04-26
AI:
Very sleek and fast Chinese humanoid robot. The parent company, Stardust Intelligence, was founded by Lai Jie, who also worked with Tencent Robotics Laboratory, Baidu, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. https://newatlas.com/robotics/astribot-s1-fast-humanoid-robot/
Self-driving cars are underhyped https://www.slowboring.com/p/self-driving-cares-are-underhyped
Tau Robotics: “We are building a general AI for robots. We start by building millions of robot arms that learn in the real world.” https://x.com/alexkoch_ai/status/1783570808549593398
Learning Robust Autonomous Navigation and Locomotion for Wheeled-legged Robots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXQG2_85V0
JP Morgan presents FlowMind: Automatic Workflow Generation with LLMs https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13050
ByteDance presents Graphic Design with Large Multimodal Model https://github.com/graphic-design-ai/graphist
Better Synthetic Data by Retrieving and Transforming Existing Datasets https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14361
“automatically repairing non-building code increases productivity and appears to introduce no detectable negative impact on code safety, provided that high quality training data and responsible monitoring are employed” https://research.google/blog/safely-repairing-broken-builds-with-ml/
Anduril's engineers beat out Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing for their largest-ever contract to build an autonomous warplane. https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/anduril-moves-ahead-in-pentagon-program-to-develop-unmanned-fighter-jets/
Big Tech keeps spending billions on AI. There’s no end in sight. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/25/microsoft-google-ai-investment-profit-facebook-meta/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/QIJ5N]
Psychology:
In a Scientific First, Mice Engineered With Rat Neurons Show Advanced Sensory Skills https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/hybrid-brains-these-mice-smell-rat
On Proposed Environmental Causes of the American Black-White IQ Gap https://ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/on-proposed-environmental-causes-of-the-american-black-white-iq-gap/
Technology:
Is everyone sleeping on virtual and augmented reality? https://x.com/JackSoslow/status/1783297751629123860
Long confined to regions with volcanic activity, geothermal promises to become a much more versatile energy source thanks to new technologies https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-geothermal-technology-could-expand-clean-power-generation/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/ZUFon]
Miscellaneous:
This May Be Our Last Chance to Halt Bird Flu in Humans and We Are Blowing It https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/bird-flu-cow-outbreak.html [no paywall: https://archive.is/JQRnM]
The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5556650/the-internet-archives-last-ditch-effort-to-save-itself
Cat chase POV https://x.com/TweetsOfCats/status/1783587790074073303
Ukraine:
Russians were trying to remove an anti tank mine but accidentally triggered it. https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1783518418647371839
The Ukrainian intelligence service GUR burned down a Russian Ka-32 multi-purpose helicopter located at Moscow's Ostafyevo International Airport. This helicopter was used to provide logistical needs and evacuation operations of the Russian army. https://x.com/ian_matveev/status/1783824282549973121
“A Ukrainian E-300 enterprise fixed wing long-range UAV crashed in Russia, 1000 km from the border. Russian media write a camera was installed and that it carried a FAB-100 aerial bomb.” https://x.com/DawidKamizela/status/1783771654767694222
“Kherson Oblast, a Ukrainian forward air controller guides a pair of Su-25 Frogfoots into a rocket attack run, hitting the center of Novopokrovka with a number of S-8 rockets.” https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1783726270993285299
“Footage of a Ukrainian Air Force fighter engaging and downing a Russian drone with an air to air missile.” https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1783629642160603418