What’s News Today? 1. A working group to make artificial wombs happen and are recruiting experts. http://exo-genesis.co
2. Practically-A-Book Review: Yudkowsky Contra Ngo On Agents https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/practically-a-book-review-yudkowsky
3. The AI Control Problem in a wider intellectual context https://philosophybear.substack.com/p/the-ai-control-problem-in-a-wider
4. Meta patents reveal how to cash in on the metaverse: “Pupil movements, body poses and nose scrunching are among the flickers of human expression that Meta wants to harvest in building its metaverse, according to an analysis of dozens of patents recently granted to Facebook’s parent company.” [WSJ] https://archive.fo/2ecQy
5. Eye-tracking may be the closest thing we have to mind-reading: New study shows that visual behaviour can reveal people’s sex, age, ethnicity, personality traits, drug-consumption habits, emotions, fears, skills, interests, sexual preferences, and physical and mental health. https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-42504-3_15
6. It’s written all over your face: How our faces are our biggest privacy vulnerability https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/its-written-all-over-your-face
7. “dramatic shift over the course of 2021, from a nine-percentage-point Democratic advantage in the first quarter to a rare five-point Republican edge in the fourth quarter” https://news.gallup.com/poll/388781/political-party-preferences-shifted-greatly-during-2021.aspx
8. HyperTransformers, a novel architecture for few-shot learning able to generate the weights of a CNN directly from a given support set. https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04182
9. UNICORN on RAINBOW: A Universal Commonsense Reasoning Model on a New Multitask Benchmark https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13009
10. Does the advent of machine learning mean the classic methodology of hypothesizing, predict and test has had its day? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/09/are-we-witnessing-the-dawn-of-post-theory-science
