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• Reading Note

LLMs Get Trounced at Chess

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated they can do many things well enough, it’s important to remember that these are not “thinking machines” so much as impressively competent “writing machines” (able to figure out what words are likely to follow). Case in point: both OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot lost to the chess playing engine of an old Atari game...

• Essay

Updating my AI News Reader

A few months ago, I shared that I had built an AI-powered personalized news reader which I use (and still do) on a near-daily basis. Since that post, I’ve made a couple of major improvements (which I have just reflected in my public Github). Switching to JAX I previously chose Keras 3 for my deep learning algorithm architecture because of its ease of use as well as the...

• Reading Note

Who needs humans? Lab of AIs designs valid COVID-binding proteins

A recent preprint from Stanford has demonstrated something remarkable: AI agents working together as a team solving a complex scientific challenge. While much of the AI discourse focuses on how individual large language models (LLMs) compare to humans, much of human work today is a team effort, and the right question is less “can this LLM do better than a single human on a...

• Essay

The World Runs on Excel… and its Mistakes

The 2022 CHIPS and Science Act earmarked hundreds of billions in subsidies and tax credits to bolster a U.S. domestic semiconductor (and especially semiconductor manufacturing) industry. If it works, it will dramatically reposition the U.S. in the global semiconductor value chain (especially relative to China).

• Reading Note

The “Large Vision Model” (LVM) Era is Upon Us

Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ll know the tech industry has been rocked by the rapid advance in performance by large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. By adapting self-supervised learning methods, LLMs “learn” to sound like a human being by learning how to fill in gaps in language and, by doing so, become remarkably adept at solving not just language problems but...