AI

• “Our approach to alignment research”, Leike et al 2022 (short overview: InstructGPT, debate, & GPT for alignment research); “The alignment problem from a deep learning perspective”, Ngo 2022

• “What do surveyed ML researchers think about AI in July–August 2022?”, AI Impacts (opinion remains highly inconsistent & inchoate, but timelines are faster & deadlier than 2016)

• “MeloForm: Generating Melody with Musical Form based on Expert Systems and Neural Networks”, Lu et al 2022 (MIDI/piano roll)

Matters Of Scale:

• “U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China”

• “Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition”, Binz et al 2024; “Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People”, Park et al 2024; “Social Simulacra: Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems”, Park et al 2022 (prompting for GPT-3 to generate ‘communities’ of personas); “Using Large Language Models to Simulate Multiple Humans”, Aher et al 2022 (eg. age groups); Typical.me; “My coworkers are GPT-4 bots, and we all hang out on Slack”; Chirper.ai; “Beyond Memorization: Violating Privacy Via Inference with Large Language Models”, Staab et al 2023/“Language Models Model Us”/“Designing a Dashboard for Transparency and Control of Conversational AI”, Chen et al 2024; “LLMs can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure”, Scheurer et al 2023; “Can a computer outfake a human [personality]?”, Phillips & Robie 2023; “Using Sequences of Life-events to Predict Human Lives”, Savcisens et al 2023; “Automated Social Science: Language Models as Scientist and Subjects”, Manning et al 2024; “Language models accurately infer correlations between psychological items and scales from text alone”, Hommel & Arslan 2024

• “Stable Diffusion Public Release”, Stability.Ai (SD checkpoints now fully publicly released; work continues on even higher-quality successor; ponies, anime, Japanese—“but is it Art?”)

• “Semantic scene descriptions as an objective of human vision”, Doerig et al 2022 (using Jean et al 2021); “Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings”, Tang et al 2022; “Decoding speech from non-invasive brain recordings”, Défossez et al 2022; “Brain2GAN: Reconstructing perceived faces from the primate brain via StyleGAN3”, Anonymous et al 2022

• “A Future History of Biomedical Progress”, Adam Green (applying DL scaling law paradigm to bio)

• “AlexaTM 20B: Few-Shot Learning Using a Large-Scale Multilingual Seq2Seq Model”, Soltan et al 2022; “SAP: Bidirectional Language Models Are Also Few-shot Learners”, Patel et al 2022 (T5 finally does meta-learning)

• “Discovering Bugs in Vision Models using Off-the-shelf Image Generation and Captioning”, Wiles et al 2022 (towards closing loops)

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

• “23andMe added approximately 300,000…bringing its total number of genotyped customers to 13.1 million”; “Hospital and Drug-maker Move to Build Vast Database of New Yorkers’ DNA”

• “Identification of 64 new risk loci for major depression, refinement of the genetic architecture and risk prediction of recurrence and comorbidities”, Als et al 2022

Recent Evolution:

• “1,000 ancient genomes uncover 10,000 years of natural selection in Europe”, Le et al 2022

Engineering:

• Gametogenesis:

  • “Scientists create mice with two fathers after making eggs from male cells: Creation of mammal with two biological fathers could pave way for new fertility treatments in humans”

  • “Post-Gastrulation Synthetic Embryos Generated Ex Utero from Naïve Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells”, Tarazi et al 2022

  • “Embryo model completes gastrulation to neurulation and organogenesis”, Amadei et al 2022

  • “Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized mammalian oocytes”, Wei et al 2022

  • “Mouse-embryo model derived exclusively from embryonic stem cells undergo neurulation and heart development”, Lau et al 2022; “Stem cell-derived mouse embryos develop within an extra-embryonic yolk sac to form anterior brain regions and a beating heart”, Zernicka-Goetz et al 2022

  • “Ex vivo reconstitution of fetal oocyte development in humans and cynomolgus monkeys”, Mizuta et al 2022

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias?”, Brodeur et al 2022 (pre-registered studies need to specify the exact analysis for it to work)

• “Reproducibility in the Social Sciences”, Moody et al 2022; “It pays to be ignorant: A simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation”, Pritchett 2002

Politics/Religion

Psychology/Biology

• “Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon”, Gobet & Sala 2022

Technology

• “When Every Ketchup But One Went Extinct: The main casualty of the catsup war was flavor” (the war over benzoates & ketchup extinction as byproduct)

Economics

Philosophy

Fiction

Miscellaneous