Inside the Black Box: Cracking AI & Deep Learning
Arshavir Blackwell, PhD🤖, John Holman, Silvia StepitovaI open AI models and make them write in my voice, after 35+ years building them. Experiments on my own hardware, no hype. Subscribe and get Beat Writer’s Block free: a classic author continues your stuck paragraph in their voice.
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Why a Small AI Model Out-Shakespeared a Big One
I was on James Allen’s Profit Your Knowledge, which just dropped. We were talking about why AI writing all sounds the same, and I mentioned a result that still bothers me a little.
I’d been training models on public-domain authors — Twain,...
Sherlock Holmes Met a Machine That Explains Itself. He Didn't Believe a Word.
Holmes's most famous trick is not solving the case. It is the part afterwards, when he lays out the chain that led him there. Here is a scene he never got.
It was a damp March evening, and I discovered Holmes seated at the table before a...
What Thirty Podcasts Taught Me About AI
For most of the past year I’ve been a guest on podcasts, thirty-odd so far, talking about AI. I come at it as someone who started in the field in academia more than 35 years ago, used it in the corporate world, and now builds his own AI sof...
P. T. Barnum Read Some AI Advertising. He Said It Wasn't Even Humbug.
Barnum's trade was not lying. It was making a claim strange enough that people would pay to come and settle the argument. He was the original “teach the conflict,” guy. Here is what he makes of the copy a machine writes.
They exhibited t...
Pick the writing that sounds like you on a good day
Hi, it's Arshavir.
Many writers think they need a huge archive before an AI can learn their voice.
You don't. You need the right thousand words.
What you'll learn today:
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How much writing a voice model needs
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Which pieces to choo...
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