September 2022 News
September 2022 Gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO
September 2022’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, August 2022 (archives). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.
Writings
Links
AI
“Human-level Atari 200× faster”, et al2022
“A Generalist Neural Algorithmic Learner”, et al2022 (single GNN with single set of weights trained to solve 30 classical CLRS computer algorithmic tasks)
Agility Robotics’s “Cassie” bipedal robot can run 100 meters in 25s (video; also does stairs, & 5K run on 1 battery)
“PaLI: A Jointly-Scaled Multilingual Language-Image Model”, et al2022/
“PaLI-X: On Scaling up a Multilingual Vision and Language Model”, et al2023/ PaLI-3; “Scaling Vision Transformers to 22 Billion Parameters”, et al2023 (better, fairer, more human-like perceptual errors, & more robust) “Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: An Evaluation by Industry Professionals”, et al2022 (writing >10k-word plays with Chinchilla, using recursive prompting of summaries); “Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers”, et al2022
“Neuron numbers link innovativeness with both absolute and relative brain size in birds”, et al2022; “Avian neurons consume 3× less glucose than mammalian neurons”, von et al2022
“Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor ‘Understanding’ Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest”, et al2022 (CLIP+GPT-3: still poor performance)
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
Statistics/Meta-Science
Politics/Religion
Psychology/Biology
“A Novel Human Sex Difference: Male Sclera Are Redder and Yellower than Female Sclera”, 2022 (‘we know more than we can tell’—do DL retina models tap into this?)
Technology
Economics
“The Fable of the Bees: An Economic Investigation”, 1973 (emergent order in beekeeping; cf. lighthouses); “Hobo Economicus”, et al2022
Philosophy
Fiction
“Understanding Urusei Yatsura”, Full Frontal
Miscellaneous
Books
Nonfiction:
Lucretius’s On The Nature of Things, A. E. Stallings
Fiction:
Film/TV
Live-action:
Animated:
Music
MLP:
Doujin:
Misc: