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The math-solving horse who fooled scientists still haunts AI research
1+ hour, 25+ min ago (288+ words) In early 1900s Germany, a math teacher named Wilhelm von Osten toured the country with Clever Hans, a horse who could apparently add, subtract, multiply, divide, tell time, and answer questions like "If the eighth day of the month comes on…...
The billion-dimensional map hidden inside every AI model
1+ week, 6+ day ago (281+ words) A latent space is a map with billions of dimensions, where every idea sits at its own address and every quality is a direction you can travel. Push a picture toward "catness" and it turns more cat; run the arithmetic…...
The YouTube channel with 77,000 videos of red and blue rectangles
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (270+ words) It was Google. In June 2014 YouTube confirmed the channel was its own, used to test how much quality video loses during upload and streaming — the rectangles get uploaded, then compared against the originals. YouTube announced it with a Rick Astley…...
Scientists built a machine to solve what AI can't
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (498+ words) A team spread across Washington University in St Louis, the Indian Institute of Science, Heidelberg University, Johns Hopkins, and UC Santa Cruz built a computer to solve the kind of problem that stumps today's chatbots, and they describe it in…...
The case for thinking of yourself as a meat-based language model
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (343+ words) Are humans just LLMs in meat suits? Arturo Nereu doesn't quite think so, but in a recent essay, he lays out the uncomfortable parallels between how large language models work and how he experiences his own thinking. The more he…...
ICE paid $636,500 for AI "bounty hunter" agents to track deportees, family, and friends
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (18+ words) ICE contracted AI Solutions 87 to build AI agents that map targets' "services, locations, friends, family, and associates."...
A computer scientist beat textbook binary search by more than 2x
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (263+ words) Lemire's algorithm, which he calls SIMD Quad, splits the array into 16-element blocks, then narrows down to the correct block by jumping through quarters rather than halves. Once it lands on a block, SIMD checks all 16 entries at once. More…...
Talkie is an AI language model trained only on pre-1931 texts
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (294+ words) There are various LLMs that focus on public domain texts, for ethical or experimental reasons, but most also incorporate modern material (such as Wikipedia) so they have a fully contemporary awareness of history, society, current events and the rest of…...