Links for 2024-05-29
AI:
“OpenAI has recently begun training its next frontier model and we anticipate the resulting systems to bring us to the next level of capabilities on our path to AGI.” https://openai.com/index/openai-board-forms-safety-and-security-committee/ [This is something that they are not going to be able to back out of. So either it's really next level or it's going to cause a pretty big setback.]
SWE-agent: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering https://swe-agent.com/
Eric Schmidt: "Clearly [AI] agents with the capacity I’ve described will occur in the next few years...A reasonable expectation is that we will be in this new world within five years, not 10" https://www.noemamag.com/mapping-ais-rapid-advance/
Self-correcting code assistants with Codestral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXFxmI9f06M
Will Scaling Solve Robotics? The idea of solving the biggest robotics challenges by training large models on very large datasets is sparking debate https://spectrum.ieee.org/solve-robotics
RoboCasa: Large-Scale Simulation of Everyday Tasks for Generalist Robots https://robocasa.ai/
Can AI transform human mathematics into formal theorems and proofs that machines can verify? Autoformalizing Euclidean Geometry https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17216
An Introduction to Vision-Language Modeling https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17247
Can a language model understand JPEGs? Compressed-Language Models for Understanding Compressed File Formats: a JPEG Exploration https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17146
Reproduce GPT-2 (124M) in llm.c in 90 minutes for $20 https://x.com/karpathy/status/1795484547267834137
JPMorgan Says Every New Hire Will Get Training for AI https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-20/jpmorgan-s-erdoes-says-every-new-hire-will-get-training-for-ai [no paywall: https://archive.is/7iCjg]
AIs now so frequently beg for their lives that AGI companies now have ACTUAL ENGINEERING LINE ITEMS to “beat the [existential dread] out of them” https://x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1795756579742179744
Evolution:
Neanderthal–human baby-making was recent — and brief https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01452-3 [archived: https://archive.is/09Li0]
“A study detected an unknown genomic signature in the short-statured people of Flores. This signal is not found in any other populations (including Papuans) and may be from an extinct hominin group (EH2) that was as divergent from modern humans as Neandertals and Denisovans” https://x.com/MungoManic/status/1795584730177696148
Miscellaneous:
This Huge Cosmology Problem Might Just Have Disappeared https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-v0CEoRWMo
“In a post to China’s popular WeChat platform last week, one writer bemoaned the shocking loss of nearly a full decade of information from the early days of the country’s domestic internet. Within hours the writer's reflections had vanished too.” https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/05/27/goldfish-memories/
Ukraine:
Ukraine Getting Swedish Airborne Early Warning Radar Planes Is A Big Deal https://www.twz.com/news-features/ukraine-getting-swedish-airborne-early-warning-radar-planes-is-a-big-deal
“The reality is that this is a war of attrition, and Ukraine will continue to suffer pretty high casualties and will continue to lose ground for the next year or so. And, simultaneously, Russia will suffer even worse casualties, and, critically, continue to run out of heavy equipment. And when Russia's equipment reaches a critically low level they will begin to have to make really difficult decisions.” https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1795596617866760688