"There is no one way the mind works, because the mind is not one thing. Instead, the mind has parts, and the different parts of the mind operate in different ways: Seeing a color works differently than planning a vacation, which works differently than understanding a sentence, moving a limb, remembering a fact, or feeling an emotion.” Trying to... See more

Analogizing AI

Noah Brier draws analogies to better understand AI:

• 🚲 Relate to Veritasium's bike experiment, which shows the need to physically experience concepts to truly understand them, similar to learning to ride a bike.


• ⚛️ Draw parallels to quantum physics, suggesting our struggle with AI stems from a lack of vocabulary to describe its

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You know how some people seem to have a magic touch with LLMs? They get incredible, nuanced results while everyone else gets generic junk. The common wisdom is that this is a technical skill. A list of secret hacks, keywords, and formulas you have to learn. But a new paper suggests this... See more