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How AI Works
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How AI Works

by Ronald T. Kneusel
October 2023
Beginner
192 pages
5h 40m
English
No Starch Press
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8MUSINGS: THE IMPLICATIONS OF AI

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You now understand what AI is, where it came from, and how it works. What’s most amazing to me is that modern AI is, at its core, entirely arrangements of humble neurons trained with data using backpropagation and gradient descent.

As we saw in the previous chapter, the birth of large language models with sophisticated emergent abilities has permanently altered the AI landscape. The world of AI, as I’m writing this chapter in spring 2023, is not the world of AI as it existed less than a year ago. The musings that follow concern this altered landscape.

The online world is buzzing with debates and discussions of ...

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