One of the greatest minds of our times has died. This is a huge blow to the fields of philosophy, morality, consciousness and intelligence. I adored his teachings even though sometimes it took me years to get them. His ideas will live on. @danieldennett
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Future Artists and Generative AI: History Repeating Itself
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Throughout history, changes in human expression have often been met with severe criticism, e.g. fauvism, photography, rock and roll, and so on.
— Nando de Freitas (@NandoDF) 12 avril 2024
I can’t wait to see what the *artists of the future* will say and do with generative AI. Whether we like it or not, this is only the… https://t.co/qhh65bYNfKThroughout history, changes in human expression have often been met with severe criticism, e.g. fauvism, photography, rock and roll, and so on. I can’t wait to see what the *artists of the future* will say and do with generative AI. Whether we like it or not, this is only the
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Griffin vs RecurrentGemma: Recurrence and Global Attention in 2B LLMs
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Recurrence vs global attention in 2B LLMs. Griffin ~= RecurrentGemma
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RecurrentGemma Open Source: Griffin Achieves Inference Throughput Gains
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I’m very proud of our team for open sourcing RecurrentGemma. Yes, recurrence is back and it results in huge gains at inference time. Just look at the impressive throughput plot below. For details, please see the paper and GitHub page: Griffin: Mixing Gated Linear Recurrences
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Essential AI Book for Career Development and Understanding
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This is by far the best non-technical Natural and Artificial Intelligence book anyone could read. This comprehensive, well-researched, crisply clear, sharply focused and illuminating book is a thing of beauty. It is the book I wish I had had when I started my AI career 30 years
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Cultural Identity Existence Depends on Recorded Media Documentation
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If the human race went extinct with all their recorded media, the notion of France would disappear forever.
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Legal Entities Coordination Intent People Organizations
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All legal entities are made up by people with the intent of coordinating.
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World Models and Idea Propagation in Current AI Technology
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That is a good way to frame it, Kevin. However, gathering data to improve a world model or communicating with the goal of propagating ideas, seem within reach with our current tech. Yann is arguing for this too if I understand him well. The desire to transmit ideas is a
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LLMs Limitations in Creating Shared Useful Abstractions
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Fictitious entities yes of course. Fictitious entities that become new useful abstractions that everyone talks about, and everyone has a common understanding of them (ie shared): no. Also LLMs don’t spend much time asking people questions so they can learn useful new things to
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Shared Attention Enables Collective Coordination and Knowledge Transfer
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People create fictitious entities, eg France, and are able through shared attention to teach others about these entities. Billions of people coordinate thanks to this. Shared attention also allows children to learn declarative knowledge, eg “what’s this blue thing dad?” Do our