OpenAI Reports It Is Close to a Breakthrough in ‘Inference’ AI, Releases Progress Framework
Benji Edwards | Ars Technica
“(According to OpenAI’s new AGI framework) a Level 2 AI system has the same basic problem-solving ability as a human with a PhD without access to external tools. During the plenary session, OpenAI leadership demonstrated a research project using the GPT-4 model, which the researchers believe shows signs of approaching human-like reasoning ability. Bloomberg.”
Why AI Has Revolutionized Protein Science, But It Doesn’t End It
Yasemin Saflakoglu | Quantity
“Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold enabled the biggest AI breakthrough in science to date, accelerating molecular research and raising deep questions about why we do science. … “The field of protein biology is more exciting now than it was before AlphaFold,” Perrakis said. The excitement comes from the promise of reviving structure-based drug discovery, the speed at which we can generate hypotheses, and the hope of understanding the complex interactions that occur within cells.”
New Fiber Optic Technology Breaks Data Transmission Speed Record
Margo Anderson | IEEE Spectrum
“An international research team has broken the world record for optical fiber communications over commercial fiber. By increasing the fiber’s communications bandwidth, the team has produced data rates four times faster than existing commercial systems and 33 percent faster than the previous world record.”
The ‘superhuman’ Go AI still struggles to defend against these simple exploits.
Kyle Orland | Ars Technica
“In ancient Chinese games, goState-of-the-art artificial intelligence has been able to beat the best human players since at least 2016. But in the past few years, researchers have discovered that these top-tier AIs have flaws. go Algorithms that give humans a fighting chance. By using unorthodox ‘circular’ strategies – strategies that even novice human players can detect and defeat – cunning humans can often exploit loopholes in top-tier AI strategies to trick the algorithm into defeating them.
Google Creates Self-Replicating Lifeforms from Digital ‘Prime Soup’
Matthew Sparks | New Scientist
“The self-replicating form of artificial life emerged from a digital ‘primitive soup’ of random data, despite the absence of any clear rules or goals encouraging such behavior. The researchers believe a more sophisticated version of the experiment could produce more advanced digital organisms, and if so, the findings could shed light on the mechanisms by which biological life emerged on Earth.”
How good is ChatGPT’s coding skills?
Michelle Hampson | IEEE Spectrum
“Programmers have been writing code for AI models for decades, and now, coming full circle, AI is being used to write the code. But how do AI code generators compare to human programmers? (According to a new study) ChatGPT has a very wide range of success in generating functional code. Success rates range from 0.66% to 89%, depending on the difficulty of the task, the programming language, and several other factors.”
OpenAI: AI Model Costs Expected to Decrease Amid Surge in AI Adoption
Shubham Sharma VentureBeat
“We introduced our first version, GPT-4, about 15 months ago. Since then, the token/word cost of the model has decreased by 85-90%. There’s no reason why that won’t continue,” said Olivier Godment, OpenAI’s head of API products. … He expects the company’s continued focus on affordability across its efforts to optimize cost at the hardware and inference levels will further reduce the cost of running frontier AI models, much like what happened with smartphones and televisions.”
(Timelapse) Supernovas in motion
Dennis Overbye | The New York Times
“This spring, astronomers operating Chandra combined X-ray images to create a movie that chronicles the evolution of two astrophysical landmarks, the Crab Nebula in Taurus and the gas bubble and radio noise hub Cassiopeia A in the constellation Cassiopeia. The movie reveals twisted, drifting ribbons of stellar remnants whipped up by shock waves and illuminated by radiation from the dense, rotating core it leaves behind.”
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