Links for 2024-05-16

AI:

1. With spatial intelligence, AI will understand the real world: “Eons ago, the first creatures developed hardware to turn light into sight. Then their small neural nets turn sight into insight. Then large neural nets turn insight into foresight, enabling reasoning, planning, and actions. They become embodied agents that learn to perceive and interact with a complex world, bootstrapping intelligence along the way.” — Jim Fan https://www.ted.com/talks/fei_fei_li_with_spatial_intelligence_ai_will_understand_the_real_world

2. OpenAI Co-founder Says AI Will Replace Him in 5 Years — John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/john-schulman

3. Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing mathematics, according to a leading mathematician. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01413-w

4. Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics https://news.mit.edu/2024/scientists-use-generative-ai-complex-questions-physics-0516

5. RACER: Learning Epistemic Risk-Sensitive Policies with Online RL https://sites.google.com/view/racer-epistemic-rl

6. People cannot distinguish GPT-4 from a human in a Turing test. In a pre-registered Turing test we found GPT-4 is judged to be human 54% of the time. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08007

7. SciFIBench, a scientific figure interpretation benchmark for LMMs. GPT-4o leads in 3/4 evaluations. https://github.com/jonathan-roberts1/SciFIBench

8. PolyAI secures near $500mn valuation in boost to UK’s AI ambitions https://www.ft.com/content/928a22ba-1d04-4865-b854-5ebc5e53ea61 [no paywall: https://archive.is/h7e78]

A GPT-4o generated image: https://x.com/gdb/status/1790869434174746805

Miscellaneous:

1. “The priests of Tlaloc believed the tears of innocent children to be particularly pleasing to the god...The ritual began with the bones of the children being broken, their hands or their feet burned, and carvings etched into their flesh...Insufficient tears from the children were believed to result in insufficient rains for the crops that year, so no brutality was spared.” https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-win-for-parents-a-loss-for-aztec-worship-in-schools/

Ukraine:

1. An overview of 1 month of work by the 47th Mechanized Brigade. Dozens of Russian equipment and hundreds of personnel were destroyed https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1790802492239806858

2. “A 🇷🇺Russian assault group attempting to attack 🇺🇦Ukrainian positions in the Kharkiv region was completely eliminated by drones.” https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1790823681972638074

3. “Boat with Russian assault group of 7 infantrymen destroyed in the Dnipro river, near Kherson, by the FPV drone strikes.” https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1790802768686350830

4. The fight for Vovchansk https://x.com/ian_matveev/status/1791104518781796568

5. "All we need are two Patriot systems. Russia will not be able to occupy Kharkiv if we have those. The situation is very serious, we cannot afford to lose Kharkiv," Zelenskyi said in an interview with ABC News. https://abcnews.go.com/International/reporters-notebook-kharkiv-hospital-zelenskyy-laments-slow-aid/story?id=110294232