OpenAI reports it is nearing a breakthrough in “inference” AI, and publishes framework of progress
Benji Edwards | Ars Technica
“[According to OpenAI’s new AGI framework] A Level 2 AI system is reported to have basic problem-solving abilities on par with a human with a PhD but no access to external tools. During the all-hands meeting, OpenAI executives reportedly demonstrated a research project using the GPT-4 model that researchers believe shows signs of approaching human-like reasoning capabilities, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Bloomberg.”
AI revolutionized protein science, but didn’t finish it
Yasemin Saprakoglu | Quanta
“Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold achieved the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in the history of science, accelerating molecular research and stirring deeper questions about why we do science. … ‘The field of protein biology is more exciting now than it was before AlphaFold,’ said Perakis. This excitement comes from the resurgence of structure-based drug discovery, accelerated hypothesis building, and the promise of understanding the complex interactions that occur inside cells.”
New Fiber Optic Technology Breaks Data Rate Records
Margo Anderson | IEEE Spectrum
“An international team of researchers has broken the world record for fiber optic communications using commercial-grade fiber. By increasing the fiber’s communications bandwidth, the team achieved data speeds four times faster than existing commercial systems, which is 33% faster than the previous world record.”
Even a “superhuman” Go AI would have a hard time defending itself against such simple attacks.
Kyle Orlando | Ars Technica
“In ancient Chinese games goState-of-the-art artificial intelligence has generally been able to beat the best human players since at least 2016. But in the last few years, researchers have found that these top-level AIs have flaws. go Algorithms that give humans a fighting chance. By using unorthodox “cyclical” strategies – strategies that even novice humans can detect and defeat – crafty humans can often exploit gaps in the strategies of top-level AI and trick the algorithms into losing.”
Google creates self-replicating life from digital ‘primordial soup’
Matthew Sparks | New Scientist
“Despite the lack of clear rules or goals driving such behavior, self-replicating artificial life emerged from a digital ‘primordial soup’ of random data. The researchers believe that a more sophisticated version of this experiment could result in more advanced digital organisms. If so, the discovery may shed light on the mechanisms behind the emergence of life on Earth.”
Is ChatGPT actually good at coding?
Michelle Hampson | IEEE Spectrum
“Programmers have spent decades writing code for AI models, and now we’re coming full circle and AI is being used to write the code. But how do AI code generators compare to human programmers? [A new study shows] ChatGPT has a very wide and varied success rate in generating functional code, ranging from 0.66% to 89%, depending on the difficulty of the task, the programming language, and a variety of other factors.”
OpenAI Predicts Lower Costs as Adoption of AI Models Surges
Shubham Sharma | VentureBeat
“We introduced the first version of GPT-4 about 15 months ago. Since then, the cost of tokens/words on our models has been reduced by 85-90%. There is no reason why this trend should not continue,” said Olivier Godman. [OpenAI’s] The head of API products said: “…we expect that our focus on affordability will continue, including efforts to optimize costs at both the hardware and inference levels, to further reduce the cost of running cutting-edge AI models, as has been the case with smartphones and TVs.”
Observe the movement of a supernova (time lapse)
Dennis Overby | The New York Times
“This spring, Chandra astronomers combined their X-ray images to create a video documenting the evolution of two astrophysical landmarks: the Crab Nebula in Taurus and Cassiopeia A, a center of gas bubbles and radio noise in the constellation Cassiopeia. The video shows twisted, drifting ribbons of stellar debris churned up by shock waves and illuminated by radiation from the dense, spinning cores that they left behind.”
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