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Ideas in AI, preferably in English. Mostly what and why, a little how.

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15.07.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Makes AI "Generative"? To "generate" is to create, either from nothing (The Book of Genesis), or from very different or relatively inactive materials (an electrical generator, generating offspring).

What Makes AI "Generative"? It's Not What You Think

I can just tell you actually: it's how large the output space is, or equivalently, how many possible outputs there are. Bigger output spaces are just fundamentally different.

www.verysane.ai/p/what-makes...

15.07.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Some Thoughts On The Platonic Representation Hypothesis,

or,

How We're Rediscovering Platonism By Doing Statistics

or,

How AI Training Is Actually Chaining Up Some Guy In A Cave,

or,

Bait for Philosophy Majors

www.verysane.ai/p/some-thoug...

01.07.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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The Biggest Statistic About AI Water Use Is A Lie How did it become the main story?

The most well-known statistic about AI water use is a lie. This makes it frustrating to talk about AI and the environment, and this is a long deep dive on that specific point.

www.verysane.ai/p/the-bigges...

08.06.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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Key AI Quotes Each of these presents the clearest, earliest, or most-cited statement of a specific idea in AI.

Pushed previously as a notes file, this is a short list of ideas which have, or are, setting the agenda for AI, presented entirely by quoting the relevant person.

www.verysane.ai/p/ai-history...

07.06.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Key AI Quotes Each of these presents the clearest, earliest, or most-cited statement of a specific idea in AI.

Pushed previously as a notes file, this is a short list of ideas which have, or are, setting the agenda for AI, presented entirely by quoting the relevant person.

www.verysane.ai/p/ai-history...

07.06.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Is AI? This is an important question because AI is, currently, important.

I couldn't find a high-level overview of what AI is and how we got where we are, so I wrote one. www.verysane.ai/p/what-is-ai

04.06.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6

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