Alright, OpenAI o1 is out. If you are anything like me, you first chuckled at the description that it was "designed to spend more time thinking before they respond". But once I delved deeper, it quickly became mind-blowing. (By the way, Ethan Mollick offers an...
Three simple examples of LLM confabulations
Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can handle two aspects of communication very well: plausibility and fluency. Given an input context they determine what are the most probable sequence of words and string them in a way that is superbly eloquent. That makes the...
Curious historical connection between psychology and LLMs
A few months ago my curiosity around how-are-LLMs-'learning' took me down the rabbit hole of AI and Psychology history and I ended up finding a string of very interesting and related developments from the last 120 years: 1905: Harvard-graduate psychologist Edward L....
NLG and the range of tasks within it
The first 10 minutes of this Stanford CS224N lecture explained NLU, NLG and the tasks within and it was helpful. Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a subset of NLP (processing), which uses syntactic and semantic analysis of text and speech to determine the...