June 3rd News Of The Day
1. Towards artificial general intelligence via a multimodal foundation model: “With more sensory modalities exploited for multimodal pre-training and further exploration on more advancing foundation models, we believe that we are approaching AGI” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30761-2
2. Testing heritability of moral foundations: Common pathway models support strong heritability for the five moral foundations https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08902070221103957
3. How BIG is the universe? Sounds like a simple enough question, but in reality, there are four different ways to answer it, and they’re arguably all correct! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea3e52Uu4aQ
4. “I believe we have not yet internalized how rapidly a middle income country can fall from grace and into utter chaos.” https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/05/the-fall-of-sri-lanka.html
5. Advances in power beaming: A century later, Nikola Tesla’s dream comes true https://spectrum.ieee.org/power-beaming
6. Higher SES people have more specialization between hemispheres of the brain: “hemispheric specialization may have evolved in human primates in a way that reveals crucial links to socioeconomic status.” https://academic.oup.com/cercorcomms/advance-article/doi/10.1093/texcom/tgac020/6589935?login=false
7. “Life based on exotic matter could start space travel before reaching general intelligence and it will colonise a large part of the universe without creating visible transformative changes.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PLzantdwa8XJMLKef/grabby-animals-observation-selection-effects-favor-the
8. Will AI Lead to New Creative Frontiers, or Take the Pleasure Out of Music? https://pitchfork.com/features/article/ai-music-experimentation-or-automation/
9. A Brutal Examination: Russian Military Capability in Light of the Ukraine War https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00396338.2022.2078044
