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US Intelligence Agencies Funded Early NLP Research Behind LLMs

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31 August 2023 20h16

A little known part of the origin story of LLMs: A lot of early Natural Language Processing research was funded by US intelligence agencies that had an interest in machine translation (and also speech recognition). This funding helped develop benchmarks, grow communities and

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Endress+Hauser Innovation Journey: Digital Transformation and Sustainability

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31 August 2023 19h10

Looking for #innovation inspiration? Look no further, as I unpack the forces driving @Endress_Hauser
's innovation journey with Mike Cook and @psb_dc on @SAP
's #BetterTogetherStories. Register now https://
bit.ly/3LEfeqk #DigitalTransformation #sustainability #CX

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Three Waves of Technology: From Atoms to Bits to New Forms

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31 August 2023 17h35

"Translated into terms of technological waves, Suleyman’s evolutionary sequence looks like this: humans first used technology to operate on the physical world – the world of atoms; then they worked on bits, the units of information; and now they are working on creating new forms

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Future of Drone Warfare: Emerging Technologies and Strategic Implications

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31 August 2023 17h16

I think every one of you forward thinking technologist/analysts knew this type of thing was coming fast. So this update will not be full of surprises for you. But still important to track so we can assess what will come next: https://
oodaloop.com/archive/2023/0
8/29/two-fronts-in-the-future-of-drone-warfare/
… via @ooda

Understanding AGI: OpenAI’s Definition of Artificial General Intelligence

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31 August 2023 16h51

What is an AGI? AGI is artificial general intelligence. There's a bunch of different definitions for AGI.
OpenAI's definition of AGI is when these artificial intelligence systems can do all economically viable work that a human can do.

Understanding Tokens: How AI Models Process Text

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31 August 2023 16h50

What is a token? Tokens are how the model understands text. Instead of understanding text at a word level or an individual character level, it understands at a token level.

Understanding GPT: Generative Pre-trained Transformers Architecture

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31 August 2023 16h50

What is GPT? GPT is just the architecture of the model essentially. GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformers, which is the technology that GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, all those models are based on that technology.

OpenAI GPT Dictionary: Essential Generative AI Vocabulary Terms

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31 August 2023 16h50

OpenAI & GPT Dictionary of Vocabulary. Generative AI Terms To Know In 2023 #ai #gpt #chatgpt #openai

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Google TPUv4 System and Reconfigurable Optical Network Explained

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31 August 2023 16h29

A nice writeup about the TPUv4 system based on a talk my colleagues Norm Jouppi and Andy Swing delivered at @hotchipsorg 2023 on Tuesday. Learn more about the reconfigurable optical network!