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The famed Stanford Smallville is officially open-source! 25 AI agents inhabit a digital Westworld, unaware that they are living in a simulation. They go to work, gossip, organize socials, make new friends, and even fall in love. Each has unique personality and backstory. Smallville is among the most inspiring AI agent experiments in 2023. We often talk about a single LLM's emergent abilities, but multi-agent emergence could be way more complex and fascinating at scale. A population of AI can play out the evolution of an entire civilization. Endless new possibilities ahead. Gaming will be the first to feel the impact. Github: github.com/joonspk-resear… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442 Authors: @joon_s_pk @joseph_c_obrien @carriejcai @merrierm @percyliang @msbernst

@heyalexfriedman My position on own vs rent only changed when a rental crisis swept through Australia, such that offering $200pw above market still wasn't sufficient to beat competition and secure even a shitty place in a reasonable suburb. Until that point, I had the same sense as you.

I’m starting to not see the point in buying a house anymore. - Most houses I’ve looked at are over valued. - Property taxes (in Texas) are wild. - I have to maintain everything. - Mortgage would be more than my rent. - No guarantee value would increase. - Less amenities than a luxury apartment. Am I crazy for feeling this way? I feel crazy for feeling this way.

I've worked with superconductors for the better part of a decade now in different contexts, from STM condensed matter labs, to particle accelerators, and now fusion. Time for a deep dive on what exactly this miracle-technology unlocks for us a species: 🧵

First claimed successful replication of LK-99 Accomplished by a team at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and posted 30 minutes ago. Why this is evidence: The LK-99 flake slightly levitates for both orientations of the magnetic field, meaning it is not simply a magnetized piece of iron or similar 'magnetic material'. A simple magnetic flake would be attracted to one polarity of the strong magnet, and repelled by the other. A diamagnet would be repelled under either orientation, since it resists and expels all fields regardless of the polarity. Caveats There is no way to verify the orientation of the strong magnet in this video, also, there are yet to be published experimental measured values of this sample. Diamagnetism is a property of superconductors but without measured and verified data, this is just suggestive of a result. Take-away If this synthesis was indeed successful, then this material is easy enough to be made by labs other than the original research team. I would watch carefully for results out of Argonne National Lab, who are reported to be working on their own synthesis of a sample. This overall corroborates two independent simulation studies that investigated the original Korean authors claim about material and crystal structure, and both studies supported the claims. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: arxiv.org/pdf/2307.16892… Shenyang National Lab: arxiv.org/pdf/2307.16040… The attached video shows a small flake of their sample responding to an external magnetic field. I scroll through the video to skip to the relevant part. original video credit to: @altryne

arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892 #lk99

Here's a thread in pictures about the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC which is making headlines this week. I've studied this topic since 1991 and will show key data and models & some video. Let's go: observed temperature trend since 1901 from nature.com/articles/nclim… 🧵1/x

🚨We found adversarial suffixes that completely circumvent the alignment of open source LLMs. More concerningly, the same prompts transfer to ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, and LLaMA-2…🧵 Website: llm-attacks.org Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2307.15043

🚨 Woah. An intentional backdoor discovered in encrypted radio comms used globally for over 25 years. Buckle up!

Meissner effect or bust. Day 1. Made good progress on the list of to-dos. I'm doing this all after-hours,  so it's been a long day. Since we're gated by the delivery of the PbO + Pb(SO4), which should be tomorrow, we're working on infrastructure first.

@nnwakelam one time you said to me "i wish i was good with technology" and i remember that and lol semi-regularly when i see you post

Like ~700k USD (1m AUD) since Jan 1st

#NewPaper published in ApJ Letters by @AAS_Publishing, reports a weird phenomenon: the evolution of radio sources precisely mimics a nonexpanding universe. Major results are in the plot. A thread explains it. Read it at: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384…

10 debug print statements for every line of functioning code is what they mean by a '10x engineer' right?

In our next #ShapeYourFuture STEM careers webinar, we're bringing together experts to discuss their career pathways in designing sustainable measures to explore and utilise Earth’s resources. 📆 Tues 20 June 🔗 Register now: atse.org.au/news-and-event… @Zoe_Doubleday @HelenCleugh

An AI-powered Brain-Spine Interface (BSI) helps a paralyzed man to WALK AGAIN! In a medical breakthrough, Swiss researchers used AI to enable a paralyzed man to walk again after 12 years 🤯 This AI-powered BSI decodes and translates the brain signals into commands for muscle movement. The technology involves surgically implanted electrodes and a headset with external antennas, allowing the patient to walk, climb ramps, and even stairs with an average accuracy rate of 74% and a latency as low as 1.1 sec! Consider what this means and the potential implications: - Restoration of mobility for millions of paralyzed individuals. - Novel, personalized medical treatments powered by AI. - Accelerating progress in neuroprosthetics and AI-driven healthcare. AI is not only just transforming healthcare, it's quite literally enabling individuals to walk again!

tried Google's MusicLM today first semi-public demo of a capable text to music model (although many orgs have had this or better models for awhile, liability is very high here!) very similar to their demo page on aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/experiments/mu… MusicLM: google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm… 1/2

If you are looking for a chat LLM without any forced 'alignment' or 'moralizing' censorship, I recommend `WizardLM-13B-Uncensored` which was literally just released today. Been playing with it all morning. It is my favorite open-source chat model so far. huggingface.co/ehartford/Wiza…

@dwjperry take that, The Left!

Wow, @MetaAI is on open-source steroids since Llama. ImageBind: Meta's latest multimodal embedding, covering not only the usual suspects (text, image, audio), but also depth, thermal (infrared), and IMU signals! OpenAI Embedding is the foundation for AI-powered search and long-term memory. ImageBind is Meta's Embedding API for rich multimedia search, VR, and even robotics. Metaverse will be built on vectors.

Tired of tuning neural architectures for every task? Check out our #ICLR2023 paper! CCNNs process various data modalities / tasks wout structural changes. Session 4 - Tues 4:30-6:30pm Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2301.10540 w/ @davidmknigge @_albertgu @jmtomczak @erikjbekkers @egavves