What’s News For May 4th?
1. STEGO is a new algorithm for automatically labeling image data. It uses transformers to understand relationships between objects, allowing it to segment and label objects without human input. https://techxplore.com/…/2022-04-scientists-algorithm…
2. AI21 makes a neuro-symbolic language model https://www.ai21.com/…/jurassic-x-crossing-the-neuro…
3. Facebook uses AI to make low-carbon concrete, uses it to build (some of) a data center: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05397
4. Can We Automatically Describe Neuron Behavior with Natural Language https://milan.csail.mit.edu/
5. Exposure to a violent TV show (The Ultimate Fighter) led to a *reduction* in levels of crime – and in particular, levels of violent crime. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102623
6. Huge efforts to implement carbon capture and storage on a mass scale https://www.theatlantic.com/…/big-tech…/629545/
7. Bacterial Enzyme Converts CO2 Into Carbon Compounds 20x Faster Than Photosynthesis https://scitechdaily.com/bacterial-enzyme-converts-co2…/
8. Solar panels that you can grow: 3D metal nano-pillars create ideal frames for cyanobacteria to grow into. Excess electrons from their photosynthetic activity is directly harvested to produce a current, which is 10x more efficient than any organic process. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-022-01205-5
9. “Queer theory would predict that males who identify as women would have the same low rate of sexual offending as females. This prediction is spectacularly false.” https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/2/1/183
10. Ukraine could soon receive advanced ship-killing missiles with a 400-kilometre range that would prove a “game-changer” for the battle to control the Black Sea https://www.thenationalnews.com/…/why-russian-fleet…/
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What’s News For May 4th?