Links for 2025-02-02
AI:
1. Figure Plans To Ship 100,000 Humanoid Robots Over Next 4 Years https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2025/01/30/figure-plans-to-ship-100000-humanoid-robots-over-next-4-years/
2. “Everyone is sleeping on the *collective* advantages AIs will have, which have nothing to do with raw IQ: they can be copied, distilled, merged, scaled, and evolved in ways humans simply can't.” https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/ai-firm
3. Cerebras Becomes the World’s Fastest Host for DeepSeek R1, Outpacing Nvidia GPUs by 57x https://venturebeat.com/ai/cerebras-becomes-the-worlds-fastest-host-for-deepseek-r1-outpacing-nvidia-gpus-by-57x/
4. "Has Europe’s great hope for AI missed its moment? Mistral AI was hailed as a potential global leader in the technology. But it has lost ground to US rivals—& now China’s emerging star" (low on equity, revenue, compute, scale) https://www.ft.com/content/fa8bad75-dc55-47d9-9eb4-79ac94e54d82 [no paywall: https://archive.is/ragEs]
5. The Failed Strategy of Artificial Intelligence Doomers https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YqrAoCzNytYWtnsAx/the-failed-strategy-of-artificial-intelligence-doomers
6. This Autonomous Drone Can Track Humans Through Dense Forests at High Speed https://singularityhub.com/2025/01/31/this-autonomous-drone-can-track-humans-through-dense-forests-at-high-speed/
7. Reasoning + Tool Use: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1ieonxv/comment/maa05ic/ (Note: o3-mini got 32% on Frontier Math (!) when given access to use a Python tool. https://openai.com/index/openai-o3-mini/)
8. “The progress with our Gemini reasoning models is actually wild, we are in the GPT-2 era of scaling reasoning!” https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1885374062098018319
9. Stanford CS234: Reinforcement Learning Lectures https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOSOPzutgyCTapiGlY2Nd8u
Science:
1. New Study Uncovers Key Mechanism Behind Learning and Memory https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/new-study-uncovers-key-mechanism-behind-learning-and-memory
2. Stem cells used to partially repair damaged hearts https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/stem-cells-used-to-partially-repair-damaged-hearts/
3. New study looking at ancient DNA from Eastern Eurasian populations obtains and analyzes polygenic scores and finds "positive selection for cognitive-related traits such as IQ." https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-human-genetics/article/abs/directional-selection-and-evolution-of-polygenic-traits-in-eastern-eurasia-insights-from-ancient-dna/10AE9628ED6E7F2B4B1E72F30D64D4AA
AI:
1. Figure Plans To Ship 100,000 Humanoid Robots Over Next 4 Years https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2025/01/30/figure-plans-to-ship-100000-humanoid-robots-over-next-4-years/
2. “Everyone is sleeping on the *collective* advantages AIs will have, which have nothing to do with raw IQ: they can be copied, distilled, merged, scaled, and evolved in ways humans simply can't.” https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/ai-firm
3. Cerebras Becomes the World’s Fastest Host for DeepSeek R1, Outpacing Nvidia GPUs by 57x https://venturebeat.com/ai/cerebras-becomes-the-worlds-fastest-host-for-deepseek-r1-outpacing-nvidia-gpus-by-57x/
4. "Has Europe’s great hope for AI missed its moment? Mistral AI was hailed as a potential global leader in the technology. But it has lost ground to US rivals—& now China’s emerging star" (low on equity, revenue, compute, scale) https://www.ft.com/content/fa8bad75-dc55-47d9-9eb4-79ac94e54d82 [no paywall: https://archive.is/ragEs]
5. The Failed Strategy of Artificial Intelligence Doomers https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YqrAoCzNytYWtnsAx/the-failed-strategy-of-artificial-intelligence-doomers
6. This Autonomous Drone Can Track Humans Through Dense Forests at High Speed https://singularityhub.com/2025/01/31/this-autonomous-drone-can-track-humans-through-dense-forests-at-high-speed/
7. Reasoning + Tool Use: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1ieonxv/comment/maa05ic/ (Note: o3-mini got 32% on Frontier Math (!) when given access to use a Python tool. https://openai.com/index/openai-o3-mini/)
8. “The progress with our Gemini reasoning models is actually wild, we are in the GPT-2 era of scaling reasoning!” https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1885374062098018319
9. Stanford CS234: Reinforcement Learning Lectures https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOSOPzutgyCTapiGlY2Nd8u
Science:
1. New Study Uncovers Key Mechanism Behind Learning and Memory https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/new-study-uncovers-key-mechanism-behind-learning-and-memory
2. Stem cells used to partially repair damaged hearts https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/stem-cells-used-to-partially-repair-damaged-hearts/
3. New study looking at ancient DNA from Eastern Eurasian populations obtains and analyzes polygenic scores and finds "positive selection for cognitive-related traits such as IQ." https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-human-genetics/article/abs/directional-selection-and-evolution-of-polygenic-traits-in-eastern-eurasia-insights-from-ancient-dna/10AE9628ED6E7F2B4B1E72F30D64D4AA