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The race to develop robotic hands, memories of legendary gigs and the sea as medicine for the brain
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (298+ words) Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days double quotation markThe problem is that not only does AI train on human writing, but humans are stylistically influenced by AI,…...
Paul Tremblay Explores AI In His New Novel–The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (398+ words) Paul Tremblay’s novels explore grief and belonging; they delve into the maudlin world of the dead and of the end of the world. Now the acclaimed horror writer trains his gaze on a new monstrosity: the ever expanding power of…...
Hunting for Books for the Needs of... Artificial Intelligence!
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (141+ words) Inbox.eu If you wish to opt-out of the sale, sharing to third parties, or processing of your personal or sensitive information for targeted advertising by us, please use the below opt-out section to confirm your selection. Please note that…...
The Umberto Eco Library opens in Bologna, featuring over 32,000 volumes from his home and study
1+ week, 2+ day ago (590+ words) The decision to bequeath the library to the University of Bologna carries significance that goes beyond the simple transfer of a collection of books. Thanks to the donation by his heirs, in fact, a working tool that accompanied the scholar’s…...
From Prose to Atoms: Extracting Structured Facts From Unstructured Text
1+ week, 2+ day ago (31+ words) Embeddings make whole passages findable. But often you don’t want a passage — you want a single, clean fact. “What’s …...
Share your questions for Marina Hyde
1+ week, 4+ day ago (128+ words) The Guardian Do you have a burning question for Guardian columnist Marina Hyde? Now’s your chance to ask it Ahead of the publication of Marina Hyde’s new book, What A Time To Be Alive! Scenes From A Strange Age, this…...
A Life in 150 Words, with AI
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1764+ words) Of all the things involved in turning a woman's life into a 60-second reel, I assumed that the writing would be the easy part. Surely telling a good story in 150 words is exactly what a large language model should be…...
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How Transparent Is DiffusionGemma (and why it matters) — LessWrong
3+ week, 23+ hour ago (20+ words) Authors: Joshua Engels*, Callum McDougall*, Bilal Chughtai*, Janos Kramar, Senthoran Rajamanoharan, Cindy Wu, Arthur Conmy, Asic Q Chen, Jean Tarbour…...
How We Translate Entire Books with LLMs Without Losing Context
3+ week, 2+ day ago (625+ words) Our chunking strategy that keeps chapters coherent, respects context windows, and handles multi-lingual books. At LectuLibre, we translate entire books — novels, technical manuals, poetry — using large language models. It sounds simple: feed each paragraph to an LLM, concatenate results, done....