Jake BrowningJan 195 minWhy isn't Multimodality Making Language Models Smarter?Philosophy has something called the "symbol grounding" problem. The basic question is whether the words and sentences of language need to...
Jake BrowningDec 22, 20234 minAI Doom and the Insurance ArgumentIn Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem, it is discovered that an alien civilization is on its way to Earth, intent on conquering the...
Jake BrowningOct 26, 20234 minGenerative AI is BoringNow that the dust has settled and the hype has died down (except on Twitter), we can give a verdict: generative AI is boring. We already...
Jake BrowningOct 12, 20237 minArtificial General Intelligence isn't Here YetThe impressive success of current "Foundation" or "Frontier" models, such as GPT-4 and Bard, has led some to claim that we are on our way...