What’s News For April 1st?
1. Symmetry and simplicity spontaneously emerge from the algorithmic nature of evolution https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113883119
2. Google’s Waymo to offer driverless ride-hailing service in San Francisco https://blog.waymo.com/…/taking-our-next-step-in-city…
3. “Advances in multimodal understanding research at Meta AI”: “over the horizon, we may be able to train a single AI model that solves challenging tasks across all the modalities” https://ai.facebook.com/…/advances-in-multimodal…/
4. “BigScience started training a 176B parameter multilingual language model on the French supercomputer Jean Zay – out in the open! This is not only the first time a multilingual LLM (46 languages!) at this scale will be fully accessible to the ML research community, but the whole decision, engineering and training process is transparent and open.” https://www.reddit.com/…/announcement_huggingface…/
5. Time contrastive learning on egocentric human video can transfer perception to robots. https://sites.google.com/view/robot-r3m/
6. Demonstration-Bootstrapped Autonomous Practicing via Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning — “We show results in a real-world kitchen, with a robot practicing autonomously to improve for over a day with minimal intervention!” https://dbap-rl.github.io/
7. Robot peels banana with goal-conditioned dual-action deep imitation learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09749
8. Scientists identify overgrowth of key brain structure in babies who later develop autism https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/947649
9. Regulation and evolution in bacteria and Linux — Comparing genomes to computer operating systems in terms of the topology and evolution of their regulatory control networks [published in 2010] https://arstechnica.com/…/regulation-and-evolution-in…/
10. “Our findings uncover an endogenous mechanism for action potential initiation independent of somatodendritic integration and establish that this mechanism segregates the control of dopamine signaling between axons and somata.” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn0532
11. FDA Approves First CRISPR Cows For Beef https://modernfarmer.com/2022/03/fda-crispr-cows-for-beef/
12. How gods fail: “What couldn’t von Neumann do .. hated sports .. bad driver, had little musical ability, was not terribly interested in hearing about the feelings of the women in his life, & was an enthusiastic but mediocre chess player. .. poor poker player” https://www.takimag.com/article/math-appeal/
13. “Zimbabwe’s peak month of inflation is estimated at 79.6 billion percent month-on-month” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe
