A new character-level language model called EntropyBeam, using gradient-free count tables and a Dirichlet prior, achieved a validation loss of 1.596 nats on the Shakespeare character benchmark, outper…
A developer demonstrated that gzip, a standard file compressor, can perform rudimentary language modeling by exploiting the compression-prediction equivalence. Using beam search over byte sequences, g…
A developer built a character-level language model from scratch using Shakespeare's complete works, training a nanoGPT model on a consumer-grade MacBook Pro in about 15 minutes. The project demonstrat…
Researchers have developed a bilayer SIR/SIRS epidemiological model to analyze how AI models collapse when trained on synthetic data generated by other AI systems, treating data corpora and AI models …
RateMyFace, an AI-powered photo roasting site, reduced its average response time from 50 seconds to 27 seconds and measurably improved roast quality by building an automated prompt evaluation loop. Th…
A blogger known as "Cons ulet" published a post arguing that Emacs is easy to use, not arcane or complicated as commonly believed. The post, part of a series on Emacs usage patterns, aims to dispel th…
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins engaged in a two-day conversation with an AI chatbot he named Claudia, leading him to question whether the AI's apparent consciousness is genuine or merely a sop…