AI

Harvard Developed AI Identifies the Shortest Path to Human Happiness

By mistaking language as merely a tool that’s a means to an end—little different from a spatula—too many people have lost sight of the fact that understanding language provides the basis of smart thinking.

In 2021, researchers made a striking discovery while training a series of tiny models on toy tasks [1]. They found a set of models that suddenly flipped from memorizing their training data to correctly generalizing on unseen inputs after training for much longer. This phenomenon – where generalization seems to happen abruptly and long after fitting... See more