AI

• “Our approach to alignment research”⁠, Leikeet al2022 (short overview: InstructGPT⁠, debate, & GPT for alignment research); “The alignment problem from a deep learning perspective”⁠, Ngo2022

• ⁠“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”⁠, Luet al2022 (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”⁠, Binzet al2024; “Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People”⁠, Parket al2024; “Social Simulacra: Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems”⁠, Parket al2022 (prompting for GPT-3⁠ to generate ‘communities’ of personas); “Using Large Language Models to Simulate Multiple Humans”⁠, Aheret al2022 (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”⁠, Staabet al2023/⁠“Language Models Model Us”⁠/“Designing a Dashboard for Transparency and Control of Conversational AI”⁠, Chenet al2024; “LLMs can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure”⁠, Scheureret al2023; “Can a computer outfake a human [personality]?”⁠, Phillips & Robie2023; “Using Sequences of Life-events to Predict Human Lives”⁠, Savcisenset al2023; “Automated Social Science: Language Models as Scientist and Subjects”⁠, Manninget al2024; “Language models accurately infer correlations between psychological items and scales from text alone”⁠, Hommel & Arslan2024

• ⁠“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”⁠, Doeriget al2022 (using Jeanet al2021⁠); “Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings”⁠, Tanget al2022; “Decoding speech from non-invasive brain recordings”⁠, Défossezet al2022; “Brain2GAN: Reconstructing perceived faces from the primate brain via StyleGAN3”⁠, Anonymouset al2022

• ⁠“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”⁠, Soltanet al2022; “SAP: Bidirectional Language Models Are Also Few-shot Learners”⁠, Patelet al2022 (T5⁠ finally does meta-learning)

• “Discovering Bugs in Vision Models using Off-the-shelf Image Generation and Captioning”⁠, Wileset al2022 (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”⁠, Alset al2022

Recent Evolution:

• “1,000 ancient genomes uncover 10,000 years of natural selection in Europe”⁠, Leet al2022

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”⁠, Taraziet al2022

  • “Embryo model completes gastrulation to neurulation and organogenesis”⁠, Amadeiet al2022

  • “Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized mammalian oocytes”⁠, Weiet al2022

  • “Mouse-embryo model derived exclusively from embryonic stem cells undergo neurulation and heart development”⁠, Lauet al2022; “Stem cell-derived mouse embryos develop within an extra-embryonic yolk sac to form anterior brain regions and a beating heart”⁠, Zernicka-Goetzet al2022

  • “Ex vivo reconstitution of fetal oocyte development in humans and cynomolgus monkeys”⁠, Mizutaet al2022

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias?”⁠, Brodeuret al2022 (pre-registered⁠ studies need to specify the exact analysis for it to work)

• “Reproducibility in the Social Sciences”⁠, Moodyet al2022; “It pays to be ignorant: A simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation”⁠, Pritchett2002

Politics/Religion

Psychology/Biology

• “Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon”⁠, Gobet & Sala2022

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