AI

Matters Of Scale:

• “STaR: Bootstrapping Reasoning With Reasoning”, Zelikman et al 2022; “Self-Consistency Improves Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Language Models”, Wang et al 2022 (inner monologue/self-distillation); “Maieutic Prompting: Logically Consistent Reasoning with Recursive Explanations”, Jung et al 2022 (generate trees of arguments, then a Max-SAT solver finds best tree!); “Socratic Models: Composing Zero-Shot Multimodal Reasoning with Language”, Zeng et al 2022

• “Building [very simple] games and apps entirely through natural language using OpenAI’s code-davinci Codex model”, Andrew Mayne (Twitter); “Balloons! The Balloon Clicker Game”, Shawn Matthew Crawford

• “NaturalSpeech: End-to-End Text to Speech Synthesis with Human-Level Quality”, Tan et al 2022 (samples; human-rated equal quality on LJSpeech); “TorToiSe: a true zero-shot multi-voice TTS engine”, neonbjb (paper; DALL·E-2-like diffusion TTS, w/open-source code & checkpoints; samples); “BigVGAN: A Universal Neural Vocoder with Large-Scale Training”, Lee et al 2022

• “The Dangers of Underclaiming: Reasons for Caution When Reporting How NLP Systems Fail”, Bowman2022 (on misuse of benchmarks & critiques)

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

Statistics/Meta-Science

Politics/Religion

Psychology/Biology

Technology

Economics

Philosophy

Fiction

Miscellaneous