CRITICAL//Consensus

Time is a feedback loop, not a linear path. The future haunts the present, driving us towards it.

Links for 2024-06-19

AI:

1. Jared Kaplan (Anthropic's Chief Scientist): Human level AI by 2030? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a5lzYreMME

2. Ilya Sutskever: I am starting a new company. Superintelligence is within reach. We've started the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oeZ93QTv39TeB94Wt/ilya-sutskever-created-a-new-agi-startup

3. Transcendence: Generative Models Can Outperform The Experts That Train Them https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11741v1

4. Learning Iterative Reasoning through Energy Diffusion https://energy-based-model.github.io/ired/

5. PlanRAG: A Plan-then-Retrieval Augmented Generation for Generative Large Language Models as Decision Makers https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12430

6. LLARVA: Vision-Action Instruction Tuning Enhances Robot Learning https://llarva24.github.io/

7. “New data shows that the Waymo Driver continues to make roads safer. Over 14.8M rider-only miles driven through the end of March, it was up to 3.5x better in avoiding crashes that cause injuries and 2x better in avoiding police-reported crashes than human drivers in SF & Phoenix.” https://x.com/Waymo/status/1803095329304088922

8. “By removing vector quantization, our image generator achieves strong results while enjoying the speed advantage of sequence modeling.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11838

9. FlowMM: Generates stable & novel materials efficiently; Predicts crystal structure accurately; Generalizes Riemannian Flow Matching to point clouds with periodic boundaries https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04713

10. How Do Large Language Models Acquire Factual Knowledge During Pretraining? https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11813

11. OlympicArena: Benchmarking Multi-discipline Cognitive Reasoning for Superintelligent AI https://gair-nlp.github.io/OlympicArena/

Technology:

1. “If you love the craft of low level computer programming, you will get a weeks worth of dopamine hits watching this video” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JzyaOYJeY

2. “Ultimately, we’re trying to understand one of the most fascinating and complex objects we have in the known universe.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSG3_JvnCkU

3. A technological explosion 600,000 years ago sheds light on the ability that made us human. Researchers propose that cumulative culture may predate the separation of the Neanderthal and ‘Homo Sapiens’ lineages, and that a common ancestor could have developed it. https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-06-18/a-technological-explosion-600000-years-ago-sheds-light-on-the-ability-that-made-us-human.html

4. TDK claims insane energy density in solid-state battery breakthrough https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/tdk-claims-insane-energy-density-in-solid-state-battery-breakthrough/