Links for 2024-05-01
AI:
An alternative neural network architecture, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN), achieves much better accuracy with fewer parameters for interesting physics and math problems. It is also more accurate and interpretable. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19756
Meta announces Better & Faster Large Language Models via Multi-token Prediction https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19737
Meta presents Iterative Reasoning Preference Optimization — Increases accuracy for Llama-2-70B-Chat: 55.6% -> 81.6% on GSM8K; 12.5% -> 20.8% on MATH; 77.8% -> 86.7% on ARC-Challenge https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19733
How Field AI is Conquering Unstructured Autonomy: Ex- NASA, DARPA, and DeepMind researchers are teaching robots to go anywhere https://spectrum.ieee.org/autonomy-unstructured-field-ai
Amazon's robot workforce has expanded to over 750,000, overtaking 100,000 human jobs. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-grows-over-750-000-153000967.html
Elon Musk's latest idea is to turn Tesla cars into a distributed AI compute network, akin to AWS but on wheels. https://www.theverge.com/24139142/elon-musk-tesla-aws-distributed-compute-network-ai
Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18416
Replacing Judges with Juries: Evaluating LLM Generations with a Panel of Diverse Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18796
AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find https://gizmodo.com/ai-can-tell-your-political-affiliation-just-by-looking-1851430714 (See also: It's written all over your face https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/its-written-all-over-your-face)
Miscellaneous:
Nanotechnology: A Primer for Policymakers https://abundance.institute/articles/nanotechnology-a-primer-for-policymakers
Ukraine:
“Graphic footage. A Russian soldier films their own losses. Presumably Avdiivka area. A forest plantation filled with Russian corpses. The amount of corpses that can be seen per m² is insane.” https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1785368169109942634
Putin’s fuel problem: How Ukraine is sapping Russia’s diesel and gasoline https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-russia-diesel-prices-skyrocket-ukraine-war-drone-strikes-oil-refineries/
“Russian oil refinery in Ryazan was under attack tonight. This is the second time when drones target objects on the territory of this oil refinery (thread about previous strikes attached).” https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1785582386148753770