On physics
- The physics Nobel went to neural networks
Hopfield and Hinton won the physics prize, and Hassabis and Jumper shared chemistry for AlphaFold. A mechanical engineer's reaction to physics and AI converging.
2 min reads likes comments - Images are solved-ish. Video is where physics lives
DALL·E 2 generates images that look like real photos and paintings from a sentence. Why the jump to video is much harder than the jump from GANs to this.
2 min reads likes comments - AlphaFold and learning physics from data
DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 predicts protein structures about as accurately as experiments do. A fifty-year-old physics problem, solved mostly by learning from examples.
2 min reads likes comments - 200 seconds vs. 10,000 years
Google claims quantum supremacy with a 53-qubit chip. What the chip actually computed, why IBM disputes the number, and why there's still no workload.
2 min reads likes comments - Breath of the Wild is a physics engine you can think in
The new Zelda replaced scripted puzzles with a world that follows consistent rules. It's the best example I've seen of what a training environment for intelligence could look like.
2 min reads likes comments - The best robotics video ever made involves a hockey stick
Boston Dynamics' new Atlas gets shoved, loses its box and gets knocked flat, and keeps going. Why recovering is harder than walking.
2 min reads likes comments - Why my 3D faces look dead: the physics of skin
Our app gets the shape of your face right and still looks like a wax museum. Most of the problem turned out to be motion.
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