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  1. Mark's avatar

    I just want to address this comment: > What initially presents itself as impressive intelligence can, upon closer inspection by…

  2. sahpa's avatar

    Hi Dan, Actually, no, that the engine is next-token prediction does not entail that “there is only so much recycling,…

  3. Mark's avatar

    I’m a mathematician who works on AI research, though not specifically on training LLMs. Basically, we really don’t know what’s…

  4. Luis Marxuach's avatar

    My experience with LLMs as a layperson/non-philosopher is that the aforesaid are excellent as spell checkers and translators (and, at…

  5. 永江 守's avatar

    I think we need to separate several different issues here: the future of the university, the future of education, the…

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  7. David Wallace's avatar

    Unless we accept dualism, ultimately any creative process comes down to high-level emergent consequences of a very complex system whose…

Blog Stats for October

Over 14,000 visits to the site last month, a 50% increase from September. More than 500 visits on average each weekday, but that drops off on the weekend quite a bit. This confirms that the blogosphere has now joined e-mail as one of the primary drags on workplace productivity.

Query: how many of these are repeat visits in a single day? I can’t tell. Reflecting on my own blog-reading habits, I note that I might visit Crooked Timber several times in a day, once to actually read, but the other times for their great list of links to other blog sites.

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