AI Learning
18 May 2023 - 21 Nov 2025
- To read/watch
- Transformer papers
- Workshop on AI and the Barrier of Meaning
- Josh Tenenbaum
- Human is not the asymptote of scaling an ML process
- Bayesian PP advocacy. Yay.
- Ref: Concepts in a Probabalistic Language of Thought, Goodman, Tenenbaum et al
- @The Child as Hacker
- laster work integrating with LLMs?
- Anna Rogers, computational linguist
- bailed, seemed boring
- Blaise Aguery y Arcas
- maximum entropy, active inference hypothesis, both suggest that intelligence is in fact text token prediction
- JEHS is "a dear friend". Some digs at Gary Marcus. Back to McCulloch-Pitts
- ref An error limit for the evolution of language, Nowak, Krakauer et al
- Embodiment: he seems skeptical
- Ref: Looped Transformers as Programmable Computers, Giannou et al
- He thinks people are "pretty much sequence models" but acknowledges that's a rare opinion.
- Talk about agency
- Social dynamics means theory of mind therefore modeling self (yes this is obvious but rarely said) Robin Dunbar on higher-order therories of mind.
- Anna Ivanova, MIT, Language Understanding goes beyond language processing
- Tal Linzen, Language models could learn semantics (NYU, Google)
- boring
- Sparks of AGI: Early experiments with GPT-4 (Bubeck)
- Hofstadter paper that Josh Tenebaum talked about (Is there an "I" in AI, April 2023) (can't find it)
- Building machines that learn and think like people (Lake, Tenenbaum)
- Embeddings - OpenAI API
- Embedding just means converting a text string into a point in a high-dimensional space (vector). 1536 and 3072 dimenstions for models "text-embedding-3-small" and -large respectively
- Ah but you can shorten the embeddings via an API paramater or after the fact with some lin alg.
- Question answering using embeddings-based search | OpenAI Cookbook
- Interesting, they recommend preloading relevant docuemnts into the normal queyr process, over fine-tuning.
- Different models have different limits
- And finding these docs via embedding-based search
- Note: PharmaKB semantic search is using this
- Courses (want something like build an LLM):