Unmaking Sense

Episode 11.43: Uploading files to local AI models and creating deep fake videos based on tiny data.

We talk about ways to upload whole files, text files as prompts to locally running large language models, and after that we talk about creating false videos that look as though you’re saying things that you’re not saying, and have never said, on the basis of little more than about 30 seconds worth of data.

Episode 11.42: A three-part excursion on Diffusion Models, Recall and Human Attention and Creativity

We explore some of the intriguing parallels between diffusion models - noising and denoising - and human learning and recall with emphasis on innovation and creativity.

Episode 11.41: The RAG Trade: Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (RAG) and updating AI models.

A short introduction to RAG.

Episode 11.40: Creativity and the denoising of a diffusion model’s latent space.

Unmaking and remaking sense as a means of creating new worlds.

Episode 11.39: Collisions and Correlations; Quoting, misquoting and upscaling, improved originals.

A series of placeholders for what is yet to come in this extraordinarily rich new vein of thoughts, thinking and latent spaces.

Episode 11.38: Noising and Denoising in diffusion models as metaphors for Unmaking and making Sense.

An unexpected light illuminates the whole Unmaking Sense series. A key-stone falls into place; understanding occurs, emerging from the fog of 450 episodes.

Episode 11.37: Diffusion models; how they work and what they tell us about the human brain.

How diffusion models work in general outline, what that tells us about neural nets and the AI process, and what it suggests we might usefully learn from the whole process about the operations of the human brain. Some passing remarks about copyright law.

Episode 11.36: The inside story; what it is like to be you or me; consciousness and understanding.

We explore one aspect of understanding that perhaps beguiles us into imagining that t is some special quality: our inside story. And we consider how AI may come to experience something similar in an occasional, emergent way.

Episode 11.35: does “understanding” refer to more than is entailed in the organisation of memories?

Memorisation and understanding again.

Episode 11.34: Is there a difference between memorisation and understanding?

Does “understanding” entail some further quality or power beyond a rich memory and the ability to organise it to solve a problem, answer a question, or complete a prompt when required? The first episode of several investigating the question.