Tokens and Thoughts
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Can AI See, or Does It Only Talk About Seeing?
In the previous post, I tried to explain why the current excitement around AGI feels different from earlier successes in deep learning. Deep learning systems had already achieved remarkable results in computer vision but didn’t generate as...
Why Language, Not Vision, Sparked AGI Claims
When deep learning architectures were introduced to address core problems in computer vision, it felt like overnight the field shifted to almost universal use of deep learning architectures for future research. The accuracy of deep learning...
When LLMs Judge LLMs
As an NSF Program Director, I have run many review panels where expert reviewers evaluate the quality of research proposals. Recently, we have seen a growing number of proposals that use LLMs to study other LLMs or to evaluate their perform...
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What is most exciting about large language models depends heavily on who you are. For the general public, it is quite simply that they work! You can ask in ordinary language, and you get a coherent answer. For business and in...
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Program Director for Robust Intelligence at NSF. Former AI startup CEO. Computational linguist studying human and machine language. Returning to academia in April 2026, eager to revisit how intelligence emerges in language systems.
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