Sparks in the Wind
François CholletIdeas on AI, technology, and society. Mostly ephemeral, but carries a small chance of starting a fire.
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How I think about LLM prompt engineering
Flashback: Word2Vec’s emergent word arithmetic
In 2013, at Google, Mikolov et al. noticed something remarkable.
They were building a model to embed words in a vector space — a problem that already had a long academic history at the tim...
The loop of progress
News round-up for December 4th, 2022
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Enter the Keras community prize ($9,000 in prizes!) by submitting a notebook or code repository that leverages KerasCV’s StableDiffusion implementation.
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AI is cognitive automation, not cognitive autonomy
The way we think about AI is shaped by works of science-fiction. In the big picture, fiction provides the conceptual building blocks we use to make sense of the long-term significance of “thinking machines” for our civilization and even our...
The machine that makes the thing is more valuable than the thing
Sparks in the Wind is now structured into two parts: a quick list of updates about what’s going on in my corner of the world, and a “weekly idea” — a short article about something for you to think about.
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Education as civilization-building
In the modern mind, "education" is all about young people developing skills that are useful to their future selves. Learn to read, learn to write, learn to code. Skills that will enable them to function in society, and make a good living. E...
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