
John Pavlus
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3 weeks ago |
quantamagazine.org | John Pavlus
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1 month ago |
quantamagazine.org | John Pavlus
I. The Wars of The Roses (2020–22) “understanding wars”• GPT-3• “a field in crisis”As transformer models approached (and surpassed) “human baselines” on various NLP benchmarks, arguments were already brewing about how to interpret their capabilities. In 2020, those arguments — especially about “meaning” and “understanding” — came to a head in a paper imagining an LLM as an octopus. EMILY M.
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1 month ago |
quantamagazine.org | John Pavlus
Artificial intelligence moves fast, so the first step in understanding it — and its role in science — is to know the lingo. From basic concepts like “neural networks” and “pretraining” to more contested terms like “hallucinations” and “reasoning,” here are 19 key ideas from the world of modern AI. Starting with …Artificial Intelligence / “The science and engineering of making intelligent machines,” according to John McCarthy, who coined the phrase in 1955.
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2 months ago |
livescience.com | John Pavlus
For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret message, there was basically one way to do it. You'd scramble the message using a special rule, known only to you and your intended audience. This rule acted like the key to a lock. If you had the key, you could unscramble the message; otherwise, you'd need to pick the lock. Some locks are so effective they can never be picked, even with infinite time and resources.
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2 months ago |
flipboard.com | John Pavlus
NowWant to raise bilingual kids? First, let go of a common mythWhen journalist Conz Preti brought her three children to visit family in Argentina in 2022, her four-year-old son did something surprising. "He just started fluently speaking in Spanish with my family, with no hesitation, no mistakes," Preti says.
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