Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT is all the rage; stock market valuations of major companies like Alphabet (Google) fluctuate billions of dollars overnight due to perceived strength or weakness of the product's AI-powered features.

This page will capture some of the interesting points about AI and its use or relevance in Knowledge Management, MediaWiki, and probably some other tangents like deep fakes or politics.

One interesting essay I read was "Creative Commons and the Face Recognition Problem" by Adam Harvey. He describes how 100 million images from Flickr were used to train facial recognition systems using peoples wedding and vacation photos.

Understanding AI

An excellent introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models (LLMs) is an article Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon by Timothy Lee and Sean Trott - July 27, 2023

Tim Lee is a journalist with a master’s degree in computer science. The article is the result of two months of in-depth research. Co-author Sean Trott is a cognitive scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

Vectors are not just for graphics

SVG is cool for graphics. But vectors aren't just for graphics.

The Nordic Language Processing Laboratory, Language Technology Group at the University of Oslo, Norway publishes their research tools which help visualize how word vectors work in LLMs For instance, here's the vector for cat. (Click the link that says "Show the raw vector").

Biases in the Hive Mind

In Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases the writers show that AI "learns" the same biases we live. The biases are embedded in our language. TLDR; if a million documents with the word 'nurse' contain predominantly female people and the word 'doctor' in that same corpora contain mostly male figures, then AI learns that nurse is female and presumes a doctor to be male.