Unmaking Sense

Episode 11.07: Project Development, teamwork, and respectful, benevolent, constructive dissent.

A digression into general human matters as they affect the deployment of teams in complex projects.

Episode 11.06: Fine tuning as a way of focusing an AI on specific details.

We revisit fine tuning from series eight. With a hint of LoRA.

Episode 11.05: Is “What Comes Next?” A fair representation of intelligence?

Objections to our central claim.

Episode 11.04: Maths of AI; how do we complete a sentence appropriately?

What comes next after a prompt, and what makes one completion more appropriate than another?

Episode 11.03: The maths of AI; overfitting and underfitting.

Teachers of all levels need to resolve a particular conundrum, which is how to prepare children well enough for whatever challenges they may face in the future including examinations, but not to make them think what they have been taught is everything that they could possibly need to know. And the other is not preparing them well enough for whatever challenges they may need to face The example, in the episode is of memorising the solutions to all the crossword puzzles that have ever been set without learning how to do crossword puzzles. That will not enable you to do the next crossword puzzle, which I presented with. The same is true of preparing for exams: there is merit in doing some past papers, so that you understand what is expected of you and the structure, but to do every past paper, as though that would somehow prepare you in the absence of a real understanding of what the contents of the paper was, is not going to help you Of course, the opposite is not to know enough to have insufficient skills and that is called underfitting, under-educating, under-learning, not having reached the required standard.

Episode 11.02: The Maths of AI; culture, context and language.

Neural nets as a central component in artificial intelligence, depend crucially upon such things as matrices, statistics and calculus. For matrices we should really read tensors, but that’s for a later episode. They also in training neural nets, require us to familiarise them with our culture, with its context, and with one or more of the languages in which we wish to interact with it.

Episode 11.01: What Comes Next: The Maths of AI 1: Completions.

Sequences, prompts, completions and inference.

Episode 11.00: Unmaking Sense of AI; Introduction.

Beginning a new series on AI.

Episode 10.44: Positive discrimination and redressing injustices and imbalances.

Positive discrimination from the perspective of Brobdingnagian little-endian women and bigendian men.

Episode 10.43: Can we be discriminatory without realising it and regardless of our intentions?

As responsible language-users we have to be mindful of the shifting sands of meaning and understanding upon which language depends and so how we are heard may very easily not match how we intend to speak. But the matter goes much deeper than that.