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Quick link: It turns out having a better opponent does help you get better
The link: After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative The short version: The overall quality…
How Copilot will lead to hiring more developers, not less
“Second order effect” is just another way of saying “Oops.” (An earlier version of this post got out of hand,…
AI and the Complexity of Loss
The most useful and most dangerous concept in AI is the loss function. To train or fit a model is…
Quick link: A mathematician on AI for mathematicians
The link: Machine assisted proof, a text version of a recent talk by Terence Tao. The who: Tao is acknowledged…
What AI designers can learn from Dracula
(Not the vampire, the novel about how they killed him.) This is a commonplace in literary criticism, but most adaptations…
Quick Link: “The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits”
The link: The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits. The key part of the…
After Trolls, Elves. Or not.
Most societally adversarial uses of bots aim at disruption: they are loud, they are aggressive, they aim at numbers and…
How to use AI to design efficient teams
Looking at teams as specialized control and optimization algorithms — which you should — the main weakness in the way…
Quick link: AI assisting journalists, but to do what?
The Link: Microsoft is teaming up with Semafor on AI-assisted news stories [Engadget] The tl;dr: Semafor, with Microsoft’s help, will…
The AI role almost nobody talks about
A useful way to think about AI/model training is to picture it as the problem of picking the best possible…