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Over the past few years I find I’ve written a great deal about war, which is odd because I’m supposed to be a professor of English literature. And I find I’ve given the Second World War a uniformly ba

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Announcing ARC Prize A $1,000,000+ competition towards open AGI progress. AGI progress has stalled. New ideas are needed. Intelligence vs Memorization Modern AI (LLMs) have shown to be great memor

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In this photo illustration, the logo of 'OpenAI' is displayed on a mobile phone screen in front of a computer screen displaying the photographs of Elon Musk and Sam Altman in Ankara, Turkiye on March

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Attention mechanism is so central to all generative models today. Let’s talk about how it works!

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