Here’s what the recent measurements suggest — and why it’s too soon to update models of the Universe’s distant future.
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Bostrom’s Deep Utopia
Robin Hanson comments on Nick Bostrom’s new tome … has a great cover with a number of interesting questions and a subtitle that hints that it might address the meaning of life in a future where AI and robots can do everything. But alas, after much build up and anticipation, he leaves that question unanswered, with an abrupt oops, out of time on page 427. … He tries to address meaty topics like, what keeps life interesting? What is our purpose and meaning when the struggle is gone? Can fulfillment get full? But in each case, the pedagogy is more of a survey of all possible answers versus the much more difficult task of making specific predictions. (More)
Light show in living cells: New method allows simultaneous fluorescent labeling of many proteins
Observing proteins precisely within cells is extremely important for many branches of research but has been a significant technical challenge—especially in living cells, as the required fluorescent labeling had to be individually attached to each protein.
Paper page — Reuse Your Rewards: Reward Model Transfer for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Alignment
Google presents Reuse Your Rewards.
Reward model transfer for zero-shot cross-lingual alignment.
Aligning language models (LMs) based on human-annotated preference data is a crucial step in obtaining practical and performant LM-based systems.
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Skyrmions move at record speeds: A step towards the computing of the future
An international research team led by scientists from the CNRS has discovered that the magnetic nanobubbles known as skyrmions can be moved by electrical currents, attaining record speeds up to 900 m/s.
Intel Completes Assembly of World’s First High-NA Lithography Machine
The company says it’s now calibrating the device so it can begin cranking out wafers.
Unexpectedly uneven distribution of functional trade-offs explains cranial morphological diversity in carnivores
Functional trade-offs can affect phenotypic variation. Here, the authors examine trade-offs between bite force and speed in 132 carnivore species, finding that optimising for velocity can be obtained in more ways than optimising for force, and this may impact morphological variability.
Zuck just revealed the secret ingredient in his bromance with Jensen Huang
Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang’s friendship appears to be Silicon Valley’s latest bromance.
They have a lot in common: both run Big Tech firms worth trillions, they each have a signature jacket, and now they’re bonding over cheesesteaks.
The Meta CEO said the dynamic duo like to break bread and revealed what they chat about when they get together.
Scientists just found an evolutionary holy grail
A new report traces the extraordinary lineage of a common Amazonian butterfly—and estimates the hybridization of its two parental species happened around 180,000 years ago.
BLINK: Multimodal Large Language Models Can See but Not Perceive
From upenn BLINK multimodal large language models can see but not perceive.
From UPenn.
Multimodal large language models can see but not perceive.
We introduce Blink, a new benchmark for multimodal language models (LLMs) that focuses on core visual perception abilities not found in other evaluations.
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