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Why Open Source AI Will Win

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a year ago 28 votes
Natural Language Is an Unnatural Interface

How can we use familiar design patterns to constrain the unwieldy state space of large language models?

a year ago 27 votes
Attention Traps

Can we find needles of signal in the Web's infinite haystack of noise?

over a year ago 28 votes
Please Build More Silly Things

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over a year ago 32 votes

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