Sotos Tsaftaris

🧵7/7 Image Credits: Curiosamente alucinante

🧵 6/7
What other analogies can you draw between the book and LLMs? Think about learned embeddings, attention mechanisms, etc. Let's discuss! 👇 #Analogy #TechTalk

🧵 5/7
Now for the techy bit: The core principle at play is compositionality. The book combines lines to create poems, LLMs combine words, sub-word units, and learned representations to generate text. This combined with massive datasets and complex architectures, enables diverse and novel outputs.

🧵4/7
So next time you're amazed by an LLM's writing skills, remember Cent mille milliards de poèmes. It's a beautiful illustration of how a little creativity and a LOT of combinations can go a LONG way. 📚➡️💻 #RaymondQueneau #CentMilleMilliardsDePoemes

🧵3/7
Just like the book can create an almost infinite number of poems, LLMs can generate a mind-boggling variety of text. 🤯 From poems to code, emails to essays, it's all about combining the building blocks in new and creative ways. ✨ #ChatGPT #deepseek #gemini #claude

🧵 2/7
Think of it like this: each line in the book is like a word in an LLM's vocabulary. 🔤 The book's structure? That's like the LLM's grammar rules. ⚙️ And every new poem you create? That's like the LLM generating a unique sentence or story! ✍️ #Creativity #Innovation

🤯 One book 10 pages. 100 TRILLION poems. And how it helps us understand LLMs a 🧵 🤯
Cent mille milliards de poèmes, is a real book by Raymond Queneau! It lets you create 100,000,000,000,000 different sonnets just by mixing and matching lines! 🤯 #LLM #AI #Poetry #Books #MindBlown
🧵 1/7

Sotirios Tsaftaris Professor Sotirios (Sotos) Tsaftaris, is Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision. He also holds the Canon Medical/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Healthcare AI and is an ELLIS Fel...

🌟 Excited to see our Director, @stsaftaris.bsky.social, featured in @edinnovations.bsky.social "Inspirational Innovators" series!
A fascinating glimpse into the experiences and inspirations shaping his journey in AI and innovation.
💡 Read more: eil.ac/iisotiriosts...
#AILeadership #Innovation #EI