A scaling hypothesis for uniquely human intelligence. More is different when it comes to information capacity. (maybe).

Lots of people in CS are (almost surely) GPT-ing their peer reviews
arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183

Strong evidence for innate knowledge of object permanence.

arxiv.org/abs/2402.14641

How can we evaluate AI’s behavior as it increasingly takes the reins in people’s lives? We subjected chatbots to a Turing Test using a suite of games from behavioral economics used to assess things like altruism, trust, risk aversion… 1/6 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Introducing Cube 2.0, a significant step towards controllable 3D game-world and video generation from any input. Powered by:
🌟 Image-to-3D in seconds w/ a new foundation model
🐎 Text-to-animation
🌎 AI rendering to create beautiful worlds (mesh+splats)

Web app →…

2 weeks left to apply to the summer school on The Human Mind and the Open Society in Budapest, organized by Thom Scott-Phillips & Christophe Heintz!

Thrilled, honored, and looking forward to teaching there among such incredible researchers!
summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2024/h…

1/ Today in Science, we train a neural net from scratch through the eyes and ears of one child. The model learns to map words to visual referents, showing how grounded language learning from just one child's perspective is possible with today's AI tools. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL 🚨

Excited to announce our first Summer School in Computational Social Cognition in Birmingham on July 15-17, 2024, with a fantastic line-up of keynote speakers: Cecilia Hayes, Christian Ruff, and Wolfram Schultz.

Please apply (compsoccog.com) and RT!

New RL benchmark for open-endedness just dropped

Interesting that caregiver and caretaker have similar rather than opposite meanings.

How common is commonsense? Turns out that except for statements about physical reality... not that common.

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

🚨Princeton ML Theory Summer School🚨

Aug 6 - 15, 2024

Speakers:

* F. Krzakala/L. Zdeborova Krzakala Florent Lenka Zdeborova
* S. Rakhlin
* B. Lourerio Bruno Loureiro
* M. Austern
* D. Krotov Dmitry Krotov
* J. Altschuler

Details: mlschool.princeton.edu

Sponsors:…

Per Uber CEO Dara, Uber drivers in India are also doing AI labeling tasks in their spare time matched via Uber.

Interesting to see how Uber makes additional types of jobs available for its 6M+ supply of 'drivers'

It’s always the friends we make along the way. Happy New Year all!

von Neumann also struggling with a definition of general intelligence

Artificial vs natural intelligence

Parfit’s repugnant conclusion meets Magic: The Gathering

when I grow up I want to be a rational actor with perfect information

Is this a massive breakthrough in neuroscience?!

'In a set of 10 papers in Nature today'

alleninstitute.org/news/scientist…