Potsawee Manakul, Adian Liusie and Mark J. F. Gales propose "SelfCheckGPT", a simple sampling-based approach that can be used to fact-check black-box models in a zero-resource fashion, i.e. without an external database.

Wired - Nita Farahany explores the concept of manipulation in the age of neurotechnology and argues for defending freedom of thought and action. Manipulation, she explains, can be subtle and is not always intentional, making it a complex issue to address.

Rohan Taori and Ishaan Gulrajani and Tianyi Zhang and Yann Dubois and Xuechen Li and Carlos Guestrin and Percy Liang and Tatsunori B. Hashimoto introduce Alpaca 7B, a model fine-tuned from the LLaMA 7B model on 52K instruction-following demonstrations

Simon Willison explains, few days after the first quantization of the Llama models, the significance of this breakthrough

Bill Tomlinson, Rebecca W. Black, Donald J. Patterson and Andrew W. Torrance analyze the emissions of several AI systems (ChatGPT, BLOOM, DALL-E2, Midjourney) relative to those of humans completing the same tasks.

Big Think - The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.

QUANTAMAGAZINE - Cryptographers have shown how perfect security can undermine machine learning models.

GAME | Quantamagazine - Explore a universe of numbers and arithmetic in our new interactive math game, Hyperjumps!

Tech culture is an object of fascination to the public, even though there is little evidence that high-profile Tech companies share a homogeneous set of values. In reality, there is more to learn about culture and ingredients of success of an organization from the science underpinning technology, than from trying to pin down ...

Michael Poli, Stefano Massaroli, Eric Nguyen, Daniel Y. Fu, Tri Dao, Stephen Baccus, Yoshua Bengio, Stefano Ermon and Christopher Ré propose Hyena, a subquadratic drop-in replacement for attention constructed by interleaving implicitly parametrized long convolutions and data-controlled gating.

Stephen Wolfram offers a big picture explanation of the inner workings of ChatGPT and other current large language models.

Sebastian Raschka fleshes out a short reading list for machine learning researchers and practitioners to get started.

The Verge - Interview of Chris Miller, Author of Chip War

Tim Dettmers gives an intuitive understanding of how to think about GPUs, and lends advice, which will help you to make a choice that is right for you.

Jay Mody implements a Generative Pre-trained Transformer from scratch in just 60 lines of numpy

The US and China draw much of the attention when it comes to AI. Europe too, for slightly different reasons. Under the radar of most people, India follows its own path.

Quantamagazine - Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternatives are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease.

Science - Richard Gill is fighting the shoddy statistics that put nurses in prison for serial

Following a workshop organized in Autumn 2021, Josh A. Goldstein1, Girish Sastry, Micah Musser, Renée DiResta, Matthew Gentzel and Katerina Sedova provide a report aiming to assess how language models might change influence operations, and what steps can be taken to mitigate these threats.

BOOK | The authors provide a comprehensive overview of state-ot-the-art approaches in NLP and Computer Vision as well other modalities and general-purpose multi-modal models, which are able to handle different tasks on different modalities within one unified architecture.

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio present monthly global temperature anomalies between the years 1880-2022.

greenDnA covers the impact from advanced analytics (ML/data science) activities

As utility of a token is not set in stone, defining “speculation” on NFTs is challenging, let alone regulating it. Regulators can nonetheless make sure end-users do not lose money for the wrong reasons

The Verge - Chris Person writes about ImportYeti, a free-to-use and user-supported tool by David Applegate that tracks company suppliers. The site allows users to search the bill of lading for companies to see what cargo they are importing, where it comes from, and what the stated contents are.

Quantamagazine - On nights and weekends, Justin Gilmer attacked an old question in pure math using the tools of information theory.