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
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“Human-level Atari 200× faster”, et al 2022
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“A Generalist Neural Algorithmic Learner”, et al 2022 (single GNN with single set of weights trained to solve 30 classical CLRS computer algorithmic tasks)
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Agility Robotics’s “Cassie” bipedal robot can run 100 meters in 25s (video; also does stairs, & 5K run on 1 battery)
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“PaLI: A Jointly-Scaled Multilingual Language-Image Model”, et al 2022/ “PaLI-X: On Scaling up a Multilingual Vision and Language Model”, et al 2023/ PaLI-3; “Scaling Vision Transformers to 22 Billion Parameters”, et al 2023 (better, fairer, more human-like perceptual errors, & more robust)
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“Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: An Evaluation by Industry Professionals”, et al 2022 (writing >10k-word plays with Chinchilla, using recursive prompting of summaries); “Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers”, et al 2022
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“Neuron numbers link innovativeness with both absolute and relative brain size in birds”, et al 2022; “Avian neurons consume 3× less glucose than mammalian neurons”, von et al 2022
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“Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor ‘Understanding’ Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest”, et al 2022 ( CLIP+GPT-3: still poor performance)
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
Statistics/Meta-Science
Politics/Religion
Psychology/Biology
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“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
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“The Fable of the Bees: An Economic Investigation”, Cheung 197351ya (emergent order in beekeeping; cf. lighthouses); “Hobo Economicus”, et al 2022
Philosophy
Fiction
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“Understanding Urusei Yatsura”, Full Frontal
Miscellaneous
Books
Nonfiction:
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Lucretius’s On The Nature of Things, A. E. Stallings
Fiction:
Film/TV
Live-action:
Animated:
Music
MLP:
Doujin:
Misc: