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The claims of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, have been some of the hottest and most emotionally charged discussions about large language models. In addition, these claims probably have the most intellectual weight behind them of all of the …
In June 2022, a story hit international news that a Google engineer believed that one of their large language models had achieved sentience. Blake Lemoine was testing Google's conversational LLM LaMDA (the model that went on to power the original …
Over the past two years, since the initial release of ChatGPT in November 2022, we've been in a hype cycle around large language models, or LLMs. Due to the very human "feeling" of LLM outputs, a lot of people have been convinced that these models …
In our previous blog post we discussed how to implement the Minkowski distance formula in a couple of functions which relied heavily on for loops. On our full data, this lead to a processing time of over an hour. With some simple tricks in NumPy …
In the last blog post, we managed to shave a bit of time off our calculation of the Minkowski distance by using vector subtraction. Instead of calculating the difference between each pair of vectors elementwise using a loop, we were able to take …
