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Can ChatGPT be used to generate scientific hypotheses?
Park, Yang Jeong, Kaplan, Daniel, Ren, Zhichu, Hsu, Chia-Wei, Li, Changhao, Xu, Haowei, Li, Sipei, Li, Ju
We investigate whether large language models can perform the creative hypothesis generation that human researchers regularly do. While the error rate is high, generative AI seems to be able to effectively structure vast amounts of scientific knowledge and provide interesting and testable hypotheses. The future scientific enterprise may include synergistic efforts with a swarm of "hypothesis machines", challenged by automated experimentation and adversarial peer reviews. In a university or research institute, a significant portion of fresh ideas arises out of discussions.
Milestones in Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Vehicles: Survey of Surveys
Chen, Long, Li, Yuchen, Huang, Chao, Li, Bai, Xing, Yang, Tian, Daxin, Li, Li, Hu, Zhongxu, Na, Xiaoxiang, Li, Zixuan, Teng, Siyu, Lv, Chen, Wang, Jinjun, Cao, Dongpu, Zheng, Nanning, Wang, Fei-Yue
Interest in autonomous driving (AD) and intelligent vehicles (IVs) is growing at a rapid pace due to the convenience, safety, and economic benefits. Although a number of surveys have reviewed research achievements in this field, they are still limited in specific tasks, lack of systematic summary and research directions in the future. Here we propose a Survey of Surveys (SoS) for total technologies of AD and IVs that reviews the history, summarizes the milestones, and provides the perspectives, ethics, and future research directions. To our knowledge, this article is the first SoS with milestones in AD and IVs, which constitutes our complete research work together with two other technical surveys. We anticipate that this article will bring novel and diverse insights to researchers and abecedarians, and serve as a bridge between past and future.
Questions of science: chatting with ChatGPT about complex systems
Crokidakis, Nuno, de Menezes, Marcio Argollo, Cajueiro, Daniel O.
We are currently in a great era for researchers and scientists studying and developing in the field of complex systems. Half of the physics Nobel prize of 2021 was awarded to the physicist Giorgio Parisi for his contributions to the theory of complex systems [9] and the other half to two meteorologists Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann to the modeling of the Earth's climate [10]. Parisi has made significant contributions to the literature on complex systems, including areas such as spin glass [11, 12, 13], stochastic resonance [14], surface growth [15], multifractality [16], and bird flocking [17].
All the Risks Tesla Is Willing to Take to Deliver on Self-Driving
There's a whole genre of YouTube videos of people showing how their Teslas can drive themselves around. These users are testing out Tesla's Full Self-Driving capabilities--which sometimes work great, and other times … not so much. Most of these videos are made by true believers who want the company to succeed but are also honest when the tech fails and Tesla's promises fall short. These promises, after all, are big--and have long come directly from Elon Musk. But so are the risks: Last month, Tesla recalled around 360,000 cars with the company's Full Self-Driving beta system--which, in this case, meant the company had to push a software update to address behavior that increased the risk of a crash, like exceeding speed limits or traveling through intersections, according to a government regulator.
Is Your Job Safe? This OpenAI Study Lists Professions That Could Be Replaced By ChatGPT
Since the emergence of OpenAI's ChatGPT - an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, people are worried that the powerful technology may eliminate several jobs in the future. Recently, Sam Altman, the CEO of the company that created ChatGPT, also revealed that he was "a little bit scared" of his company's invention. Now, a new study by OpenAI, Open Research, and the University of Pennsylvania has revealed the jobs that are most at risk of being lost due to the technological revolution triggered by ChatGPT, Metro reported. The study is titled "GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models'' which basically identifies the potential exposure that each job has to large language models. According to the study, higher-paying jobs are more likely to be affected compared to lower-paying ones. Jobs that don't require formal educational credentials are safe from ChatGPT while professions that require proficiency in programming and writing are more susceptible to being automated. Jobs that are heavily reliant on scientific and critical thinking skills are less prone to automation. Meanwhile, people with professional degrees and higher incomes are more at risk of losing their jobs to AI. Sectors such as Finance, Education, Journalism, Engineering, and Graphic Design face a greater threat of being supplemented by AI. OpenAI recently launched GPT-4, the AI technology that exhibits human-level performance on some professional and academic tasks. According to the company blog, the latest chatbot is "more creative and collaborative than ever before" and would "solve difficult problems with greater accuracy" than its earlier versions. During an interview with ABC News, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke about ChatGPT and said, "It is going to eliminate a lot of current jobs, that's true.
'I am not a human -- but I am trying': An interview with an AI chatbot
Chris: Daisy, I want to ask you a kind of meta-AI question now. Do you think you're doing a good job of replicating human-style conversation? And how would you even know if you said something inappropriate, or a non sequitur? Daisy: Well, let me answer your two questions in turn. I think that I am -- in fact, I think that I am doing a much better job than most other AI chatbots I know of!
Welcome to Cat Royale
Have you got questions about Cat Royale? From 22nd March – 2nd April 2023, three cats – Ghostbuster, Pumpkin and Clover – will visit a utopia created by the Blast Theory artists. The cats' every need is catered for. They have dens to curl up in, high platforms to pounce from and curved walls to explore. And at the centre of the room, a robot arm trained by an Artificial Intelligence offers games to make the cats happier. This page is your go to for everything Cat Royale.
Dr. Frank Rosenblatt Dies at 43; Taught Neurobiology at Cornell - The New York Times
Frank Rosenblatt, associate pro fessor of neurobiology at Cor nell University, died here yes terday in a boating accident. It was his 43d birthday. He lived in Brooktondale, N. Y., an Ithaca suburb. An originator of perception theory, he had developed an experimental machine that could be trained to identify automatically objects or pat terns such as letters of the al phabet. The instrument was an electromechanical device con sisting of a sensory unit of photo cells that viewed the pat tern shown to the machine, as sociation units that contained the machine's memory and re sponse units that displayed vis ually its pattern‐recognition re sponse.
TransCODE: Co-design of Transformers and Accelerators for Efficient Training and Inference
Automated co-design of machine learning models and evaluation hardware is critical for efficiently deploying such models at scale. Despite the state-of-the-art performance of transformer models, they are not yet ready for execution on resource-constrained hardware platforms. High memory requirements and low parallelizability of the transformer architecture exacerbate this problem. Recently-proposed accelerators attempt to optimize the throughput and energy consumption of transformer models. However, such works are either limited to a one-sided search of the model architecture or a restricted set of off-the-shelf devices. Furthermore, previous works only accelerate model inference and not training, which incurs substantially higher memory and compute resources, making the problem even more challenging. To address these limitations, this work proposes a dynamic training framework, called DynaProp, that speeds up the training process and reduces memory consumption. DynaProp is a low-overhead pruning method that prunes activations and gradients at runtime. To effectively execute this method on hardware for a diverse set of transformer architectures, we propose ELECTOR, a framework that simulates transformer inference and training on a design space of accelerators. We use this simulator in conjunction with the proposed co-design technique, called TransCODE, to obtain the best-performing models with high accuracy on the given task and minimize latency, energy consumption, and chip area. The obtained transformer-accelerator pair achieves 0.3% higher accuracy than the state-of-the-art pair while incurring 5.2$\times$ lower latency and 3.0$\times$ lower energy consumption.