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What Can Language Models Actually Do?

Part one: Language models as text compressors

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@german88castillo about 1 year ago

Was a bit skeptical at first but blown away by the end. Great stuff.

Dan Shipper about 1 year ago

@german88castillo thanks!!

@nicky_5977 about 1 year ago

Incredible writing Dan ;-)

I loved the way you re told the GenAI story in your own authentic voice. I am with you in that it helps one dig deeper when it comes to collaboration creativity & LLM’s.

I find that as I interact with Claude, and iterate on the output, the best of what I want to say, eventually does come out.

Thank you for making my Saturday morning.

Dan Shipper about 1 year ago

@nicky_5977 so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for reading

Chrisdat about 1 year ago

Really helpful in thinking about how to use LLM’s to understand complex works that I want to read, but don’t have time.

Jonathan Korn about 1 year ago

Dan this was so good.
Not just because I loved The Wizard of Earthsea as a teenager, but because you've written so beautifully about the return of nuance.

@hbx5555 about 1 year ago

More articles explaining the meaning of the AI wave in non-tech-terms are needed. This is important!

Great piece. Effective illustration. Look forward to the other parts.

Sebastian Kamilli about 1 year ago

Thanks for this inspiring article and the really to the point visualizations. Placing LLMs and the way they help with information transformation as a step of a cultural evolution really opened a next level perspective to me. Also the classification into compression-expansion-translation made me reflect on my day-to-day use cases of AI. Great writing. Looking forward to the next one in that series.