Links for 2024-06-18
AI:
Getting 50% (SoTA) on ARC-AGI with GPT-4o https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rdwui3wHxCeKb7feK/getting-50-sota-on-arc-agi-with-gpt-4o
Hypothesis Search: Inductive Reasoning with Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05660
Gen-3 Alpha: Runway’s new base model for video generation. A step toward building General World Models. https://runwayml.com/blog/introducing-gen-3-alpha/
Introducing PRISM-1: Photorealistic reconstruction in static and dynamic scenes https://wayve.ai/thinking/prism-1/
Generating audio for video https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/generating-audio-for-video/
“LLMs trained primarily on text can generate complex visual concepts through code with self-correction. Researchers used these illustrations to train an image-free computer vision system to recognize real photos.” https://news.mit.edu/2024/understanding-visual-knowledge-language-models-0617
How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/business/ai-drugs-development-terray.html [no paywall: https://archive.is/v54rQ]
DeepSeek-Coder-V2: First Open Source Model Beats GPT4-Turbo in Coding and Math https://chat.deepseek.com/
Microsoft’s Nadella Is Building an AI Empire. OpenAI Was Just the First Step. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-nadella-openai-inflection-9727e77a [no paywall: https://archive.is/lBmCg]
Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models https://www.anthropic.com/research/reward-tampering
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Aaronson, Liv Boeree, and Joscha Bach debate whether the development of AI is changing what it means to be human. https://iai.tv/video/ai-and-the-end-of-humanity?_auid=2020
Miscellaneous:
Technologies enable 3D imaging of whole human brain hemispheres at subcellular resolution https://news.mit.edu/2024/technologies-enable-3d-imaging-whole-human-brain-hemispheres-subcellular-resolution-0617
Nanotechnology can already puncture cancer cells and drug-resistant bacteria. What will it do next? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/24/rise-of-the-nanomachines [no paywall: https://archive.is/zIXI2]
Analysis of a database with 140,000 white Gentiles and 6,900 Jews finds an IQ gap of 9.8-11.5 points. https://www.sebjenseb.net/p/jewish-iq
Remarkable termite landscape is tens of thousands of years old: “Namaqualand’s heuweltjies, it turns out, are the world’s oldest inhabited termite mounds. Some date as far back as between 34,000 and 13,000 years.” https://theconversation.com/worlds-oldest-termite-mounds-discovered-in-south-africa-and-theyve-been-storing-precious-carbon-for-thousands-of-years-230988
Politics:
Philippine Sailor Severely Injured, Vessels Damaged as Chinese Block South China Sea Mission https://news.usni.org/2024/06/17/philippine-sailor-severely-injured-vessels-damaged-as-chinese-block-south-china-sea-mission