What’s News For March 19th?
1. The Deep VZN program aims to discover new pandemic-grade viruses and publish their genomes to the world. It is estimated that there are currently around 30,000 people who could then easily build them. https://www.samharris.org/…/making-sense-presents…
2. “I used OpenAI’s newest code model to make simple versions of games like Wordle, VR mazes and Zelda ENTIRELY through natural language.^I told it what I wanted and did ZERO editing/coding.” https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/…/building-games…/
3. DeepMind’s New AI: As Smart As An Engineer… Kind Of! https://youtu.be/x_cxDgR1x-c
4. Long Document Summarization with Top-down and Bottom-up Inference. Can summarize an entire book and achieve competitive performance using 0.27% parameters (464M vs. 175B) and much less training data, compared to a recent GPT-3-based model. https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07586
5. Transframer can generate coherent 30 second videos from a single image without any explicit geometric information. https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09494
6. “Control and Correlation…We see that despite being causally related, gas and brake aren’t correlated with speed at all.” https://slimemoldtimemold.com/…/control-and-correlation/
7. Moore’s Law: Scientists Just Made a Graphene Transistor Gate the Width of an Atom https://singularityhub.com/…/moores-law-scientists…/
8. Topological qubits are controlled by a fundamental property called the topological gap. Learn how Microsoft Quantum researchers have observed a 30 μeV topological gap, showing that the underlying physics behind their approach to quantum computing is sound https://www.microsoft.com/…/microsoft-has-demonstrated…/
9. The Rejuvenome: Goals and Design — “The Rejuvenome is designed to uncover the effects of aging-interventions (treatments targeting the biological processes of aging) throughout the entire body, spanning molecular and cellular changes to functional differences of individual organs and the body as a whole.” https://astera.org/the-rejuvenome-goals-and-design/
10. Preprint server removes ‘inflammatory’ papers in superconductor controversy https://www.science.org/…/preprint-server-removes…
11. Who Should We Fear More: Biohackers, Disgruntled Postdocs, or Bad Governments? A Simple Risk Chain Model of Biorisk https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310205/
12. Over the past decade (2011-2020) China’s per-capita GDP increased by a staggering 70%, while their per-capita (domestic) emissions only increased 7%. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-gdp-decoupling
