The converse is also worth asking — whether simulating artificial environments (for instance a 3d representation of a Youtube video) might have unintended negative consequences. Fei-Fei Li’s startup World Labs, which aims to make the leading “world model” — an alternative to language models based on tokenizing physical space rather than words — recently raised a substantial amount of money. As consumer-facing robots become more plausible, the business case for such a model is obvious. But what physical spaces are “world” models actually being trained on? The contemporary physical environment, sound-proofed, plastic-coated, and artificially-colored, is radically different from the environment that Homo sapiens evolved to excel in.
Continue reading...
。业内人士推荐搜狗输入法下载作为进阶阅读
Hormonal contraceptives may subtly reshape how partners feel about each other. Research suggests that pills which flatten the natural ebb and flow of fertility can dampen shifts in attraction that typically occur across the menstrual cycle, potentially altering initial mate choice.
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Response Management Program (RMP) requires more than 12,500 high-risk facilities to develop protocols to prevent catastrophes, or limit fallout, and was largely designed to protect workers, first responders, and fence-line communities.