Every Friday: one idea in AI explained properly, for the weekend.
The neuron that saw a V.
A researcher who helped convince the field that AI models are a tangled knot now says much of the knot came from how researchers looked. What a neuron is, and what the claim hasn't shown yet.
Earlier issues
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No. 04
Small enough to spread.
How an AI model could copy itself onto cheap home devices, what Anthropic's red team found when it tried, why the result is an upper bound, and what slows a worm down.
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No. 03
The poll with no one in it.
How AI 'digital twins' stand in for survey respondents, what Pew's test of them found, why a different model gives a different public, and what to ask about synthetic results.
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No. 02
Capable, but rarely cheaper.
How Anthropic measured which physical work robots can do, why what robots can do and what they're worth paying for differ, and how to read your own job the same way.
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No. 01
Rewarded for guessing.
Why AI chatbots state false things with confidence, how the way models are trained and scored rewards guessing, and what to check before you trust an answer.
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