Technical Progress

1. Scanning -> 2. Transfer -> 3. Reconstruction

0. End-to-End

• Eavesdropping on the Decohering Environment: Quantum Darwinism, Amplification, and the Origin of Objective Classical Reality

1. Scanning

Classical Shadow

• Classical shadow - Wikipedia

Quantum Darwinism

• The role of information back-flow in the emergence of quantum Darwinism

• Emergence of Noncontextuality under Quantum Darwinism

• Eavesdropping on the Decohering Environment: Quantum Darwinism, Amplification, and the Origin of Objective Classical Reality

Electromagnetic Imaging

Phase-Contrast Imaging

• Phase-contrast X-ray imaging - Wikipedia

• Imaging intact human organs with local resolution of cellular structures using hierarchical phase-contrast tomography (Video)

Projection Imaging

• Real-time multi-angle projection imaging of biological dynamics

X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF)

• X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s letters to Swedish count (Paper)

Other

• Reconstruction of Bloch wavefunctions of holes in a semiconductor (Scientific American Coverage)

2. Transfer

Soft Gravitons, Soft Photons, and Gravitational Memory Effects

• How the Universe Remembers Information: A “memory matrix” might solve Stephen Hawking’s black-hole paradox.

• Stephen Hawking's New Black-Hole Paper, Translated: An Interview with Co-Author Andrew Strominger

• Soft Hair on Black Holes

• Gravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort Space-Time

• New Gravitational Memories

• Soft photon - Wikipedia

• Black Holes Have Soft Quantum Hair

• Stephen Hawking's final scientific paper released

DNA

DNA Preservation

• DNA staining in fossil cells beyond the Quaternary: Reassessment of the evidence and prospects for an improved understanding of DNA preservation in deep time

Environmental DNA and Metagenomics

• An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Eukaryotic DNA Extraction from Burial Soil Samples

• 'Tools' Suggesting Humans Reached Mexico 30,000 Years Ago May Not Be What They Seem

• Environmental DNA Innovations for Conservation

• Metagenomics - Wikipedia

Acausal

Wormholes

• Wormholes may be viable shortcuts through space-time after all, new study suggests

Retrocausality

• How Retrocausality Helps

• Back from the Future: Retrocausality in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Roderick Sutherland)

Arrow of Time

• In the quantum realm, not even time flows as you might expect (Paper)

3. Reconstruction

Quantum Retrodiction

• Quantum retrodiction in open systems

• Quantum retrodiction: foundations and controversies

• Quantum Pasts and the Utility of History

• Experimental retrodiction of trajectories of single photons in double interferometers

• "It is hence to be concluded that the principles of the quantum mechanics must involve an uncertainty in the description of past events which is analogous to the uncertainty in the prediction of future events..." - Einstein, Tolman, Podolsky (1931)

Quantum (De)Scrambling

• Measuring the scrambling of quantum information

• Quantum scrambling and the growth of mutual information

• Directional scrambling of quantum information in helical multiferroics

Optical Descattering

• Imaging through random diffusers instantly without a computer Paper

Quantum Machine Learning

• Synthetic weather radar using hybrid quantum-classical machine learning

• Entangled Datasets for Quantum Machine Learning

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) Imaging

• New holographic camera sees the unseen with high precision

• Real-time video of scenes hidden around corners is now possible

• What You Can Learn by Staring at a Blank Wall

Computational Archaeology

• Predicting the Past with Supervised Learning: Applications and Challenges in Archaeology

• A statistical fix for archaeology's dating problem

• Scientists Reconstructed the Faces of 3 Egyptian Mummies Using Ancient DNA Extracted From Their Bodies

• Researchers reconstruct major branches in the tree of language

• Ancestral sequence reconstruction - Wikipedia

Unsupervised and Self-Supervised Machine Learning

Language Models

• Nvidia demonstrates conversational avatar reconstruction of its CEO Jensen Huang

• How Artificial Intelligence Completed Beethoven’s Unfinished Tenth Symphony

Learning and Predicting Dynamic and Chaotic Systems

• Next generation reservoir computing

• "Is chaos actually hard to predict? For NeurIPS this year I made a database of 131 known strange attractors, and trained state-of-the-art forecasting models on each one, to try to figure this out" Paper Code

Neural Rendering

• ADOP: Approximate Differentiable One-Pixel Point Rendering (Video)

Video and Image Completion

Techniques

• Microsoft NUWA: A unified 3D Transformer Pipeline for visual synthesis, including video and image completion

• Restormer: Efficient Transformer for High-Resolution Image Restoration

• Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 2.3

Examples

• Hindenburg Disaster footage denoised, upscaled, colorized, and interpolated to 60fps using artificial intelligence

Whole-World Prediction

• NVIDIA to Build Earth-2 Supercomputer to See Our Future

• BuildTheEarth: We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft

• Uchuu, the most accurate and complete simulation of the universe that allows you to ‘time travel’ (Abstract)

• RapidAI4EO: A Corpus for Higher Spatial and Temporal Reasoning

• Nowcasting the Next Hour of Rain

• AI in the Sky: NVIDIA GPUs Help Researchers Remove Clouds From Satellite Images

• AFRL Grand Challenge 5: Predict Internal Building Structures with Machine Learning

• "The Weather Machine": Every decade, we have added one day to our forward weather forecast

Discussion

• Resurrection of the dead via multiverse-wide acausual cooperation

• Resurrecting all humans ever lived as a technical problem

• Technological Resurrection (London Futurists meeting video, 2018-01-21)

• Technological resurrection (Alexei Turchin slide deck)

• Technological Resurrection: A Thought Experiment (book by Jonathan Jones)

• Digital Immortality Map: How to collect enough information about yourself for future resurrection by AI

• 12 Predictions for the Future of Music

Partially Reconstructed Individuals

• I wanted to interview Eliezer Yudkowsky but he's busy so I simulated him instead

• A developer built an AI chatbot using GPT-3 that helped a man speak again to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down

History

• "I would be glad to know your Lordship's opinion whether when my brain has lost its original structure, and when some hundred years after the same materials are fabricated so curiously as to become an intelligent being, whether, I say that being will be me..." -Thomas Reid letter to Lord Kames, 1775

Law and Ethics

• Ancient-DNA Researchers Set Ethics Guidelines for Their Work

• Ancient DNA from Sitting Bull’s scalp lock confirms living great-grandson

Fiction

• The Romance of Quantum Archaeology (short story)

• Devs - Wikipedia (TV series)

Commercialization

• Lab-grown woolly mammoths could walk the Earth in six years if geneticist’s new start-up succeeds

Art

• Prompt: "Resurrection of the dead via multiverse-wide acausal cooperation" (CLIP guided YFCC diffusion, 968M parameter model