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15 articles In The World
Speech and image systems are described by a single accuracy figure, and that figure conceals which people…
Aug 8, 2026 · 3 min read
History
The field has twice gone from national enthusiasm to institutional embarrassment, and the mechanism was the…
Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min read
In The World
The abstraction of the cloud hides buildings, transformers, cooling plant and a supply chain for chips, and…
Jun 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Jargon
The number quoted for how much a model can take in covers the instructions, the conversation, any attached…
Apr 5, 2026 · 3 min read
In The World
Machines became fluent with text and images while remaining clumsy at picking objects up, and the reasons…
Mar 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Limits & Risks
Ordinary mistakes are distributed by chance and an attacker searching for a failure is not, which turns a…
Feb 21, 2026 · 3 min read
History
Agreeing on a common problem, a common test and a common way of scoring it turned a collection of…
Jan 20, 2026 · 3 min read
Jargon
The word turns up in training and in serving with different meanings, and in the first of those the number…
Dec 30, 2025 · 3 min read
How It Works
The choice between a specialist and a generalist is not a choice between weaker and stronger, and…
Nov 30, 2025 · 4 min read
In The World
Rules about authorship were built around a human making choices, and output produced by a system fits that…
Nov 15, 2025 · 3 min read
Limits & Risks
Handing a task to a tool removes the practice that produced the judgement required to check the tool, and…
Nov 3, 2025 · 4 min read
History
The architecture behind the vision boom was designed, trained and deployed in a working industrial system…
Nov 2, 2025 · 4 min read
History
The task was attempted almost as early as anything in the field, resisted every approach tried on it, and…
Oct 28, 2025 · 3 min read
Jargon
The division between values a model learns and values a person picks is the most consequential distinction…
Oct 20, 2025 · 3 min read
Jargon
The observed relationships between computation, data, model size and prediction error are empirical…
Oct 7, 2025 · 3 min read