Links for 2025-02-16
AI
1. Stanford researchers crack Among Us: Remarkable new work trains LLMs to master strategic social deduction through multi-agent RL, doubling win rates over standard RL. https://socialdeductionllm.github.io/
2. SelfCite: Self-Supervised Alignment for Context Attribution in Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09604
3. AI model deciphers the code in proteins that tells them where to go https://news.mit.edu/2025/ai-model-deciphers-code-proteins-tells-them-where-to-go-0213
4. AI used to design a multi-step enzyme that can digest some plastics https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/using-ai-to-design-proteins-is-now-easy-making-enzymes-remains-hard/
5. Musk: "Grok 3 release with live demo on Monday night at 8pm PT. Smartest AI on Earth." https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1890958798841389499
6. EnigmaEval: A collection of long, complex reasoning challenges that take groups of people many hours or days to solve. The best AI systems score below 10% on normal puzzles, and for the ones designed for MIT students, AI systems score 0%. https://scale.com/leaderboard/enigma_eval
7. Introducing Prime Intellect’s Protocol & Testnet: A peer-to-peer compute and intelligence network https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/protocol
8. Finally, hard data on a real-world AI business use case: It’s huge for customer service https://sherwood.news/tech/finally-hard-data-on-a-real-world-ai-business-use-case-its-huge-for-customer/
9. OmniParser V2 can turn any LLM into an agent capable of using a computer https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/articles/omniparser-v2-turning-any-llm-into-a-computer-use-agent/
10. This DARPA-backed startup banked $100 million for its energy-slashing analog chips https://www.fastcompany.com/91278505/encharge-ai-banks-100-million-for-its-energy-slashing-analog-chips
Robots
1. Meta Plans Major Investment Into AI-Powered Humanoid Robots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-14/meta-plans-major-investment-into-ai-powered-humanoid-robots [no paywall: https://archive.is/TA8fq]
2. China’s electric vehicle giants are betting big on humanoid robots https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/14/1111920/chinas-electric-vehicle-giants-pivot-humanoid-robots/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/GXeYf]
3. China registers over 450,000 smart robotics firms https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202502/10/WS67a99669a310a2ab06eab353.html
Computer science
1. A formalization of Gowers’ no-coincidence principle: If a highly unlikely or “outrageous” coincidence appears in a mathematical or computational context, there should be an underlying structural explanation for it rather than it being a mere accident. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Xt9r4SNNuYxW83tmo/a-computational-no-coincidence-principle
2. Generalized Transformers from Applicative Functors, by Tuomas Laakkonen https://cybercat.institute/2025/02/12/transformers-applicative-functors/
3. The Hundred-Page Language Models Book https://thelmbook.com/
4. bytecode interpreters for tiny computers https://dercuano.github.io/notes/tiny-interpreters-for-microcontrollers.html
5. New Book-Sorting Algorithm Almost Reaches Perfection https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-book-sorting-algorithm-almost-reaches-perfection-20250124/
Science and Technology
1. Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review https://www.cold-takes.com/does-x-cause-y-an-in-depth-evidence-review/
2. Neuralink competitor Paradromics secures investment from Saudi Arabia’s Neom https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/neuralink-competitor-paradromics-partners-with-saudi-arabias-neom.html
3. “How can a brain disease increase creativity? First, we derive a brain circuit for creativity from studies of creative tasks demonstrating that they share reduced activity in the right frontal pole.” https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2830230
4. Scientists have a new explanation for the last two years of record heat https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/14/global-warming-acceleration-clouds/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/1bwYx]
AI
1. Stanford researchers crack Among Us: Remarkable new work trains LLMs to master strategic social deduction through multi-agent RL, doubling win rates over standard RL. https://socialdeductionllm.github.io/
2. SelfCite: Self-Supervised Alignment for Context Attribution in Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09604
3. AI model deciphers the code in proteins that tells them where to go https://news.mit.edu/2025/ai-model-deciphers-code-proteins-tells-them-where-to-go-0213
4. AI used to design a multi-step enzyme that can digest some plastics https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/using-ai-to-design-proteins-is-now-easy-making-enzymes-remains-hard/
5. Musk: "Grok 3 release with live demo on Monday night at 8pm PT. Smartest AI on Earth." https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1890958798841389499
6. EnigmaEval: A collection of long, complex reasoning challenges that take groups of people many hours or days to solve. The best AI systems score below 10% on normal puzzles, and for the ones designed for MIT students, AI systems score 0%. https://scale.com/leaderboard/enigma_eval
7. Introducing Prime Intellect’s Protocol & Testnet: A peer-to-peer compute and intelligence network https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/protocol
8. Finally, hard data on a real-world AI business use case: It’s huge for customer service https://sherwood.news/tech/finally-hard-data-on-a-real-world-ai-business-use-case-its-huge-for-customer/
9. OmniParser V2 can turn any LLM into an agent capable of using a computer https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/articles/omniparser-v2-turning-any-llm-into-a-computer-use-agent/
10. This DARPA-backed startup banked $100 million for its energy-slashing analog chips https://www.fastcompany.com/91278505/encharge-ai-banks-100-million-for-its-energy-slashing-analog-chips
Robots
1. Meta Plans Major Investment Into AI-Powered Humanoid Robots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-14/meta-plans-major-investment-into-ai-powered-humanoid-robots [no paywall: https://archive.is/TA8fq]
2. China’s electric vehicle giants are betting big on humanoid robots https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/14/1111920/chinas-electric-vehicle-giants-pivot-humanoid-robots/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/GXeYf]
3. China registers over 450,000 smart robotics firms https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202502/10/WS67a99669a310a2ab06eab353.html
Computer science
1. A formalization of Gowers’ no-coincidence principle: If a highly unlikely or “outrageous” coincidence appears in a mathematical or computational context, there should be an underlying structural explanation for it rather than it being a mere accident. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Xt9r4SNNuYxW83tmo/a-computational-no-coincidence-principle
2. Generalized Transformers from Applicative Functors, by Tuomas Laakkonen https://cybercat.institute/2025/02/12/transformers-applicative-functors/
3. The Hundred-Page Language Models Book https://thelmbook.com/
4. bytecode interpreters for tiny computers https://dercuano.github.io/notes/tiny-interpreters-for-microcontrollers.html
5. New Book-Sorting Algorithm Almost Reaches Perfection https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-book-sorting-algorithm-almost-reaches-perfection-20250124/
Science and Technology
1. Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review https://www.cold-takes.com/does-x-cause-y-an-in-depth-evidence-review/
2. Neuralink competitor Paradromics secures investment from Saudi Arabia’s Neom https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/neuralink-competitor-paradromics-partners-with-saudi-arabias-neom.html
3. “How can a brain disease increase creativity? First, we derive a brain circuit for creativity from studies of creative tasks demonstrating that they share reduced activity in the right frontal pole.” https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2830230
4. Scientists have a new explanation for the last two years of record heat https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/14/global-warming-acceleration-clouds/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/1bwYx]