AI! AI! AI! Aaaahhhh... so gooood!!! On Thursday, 6 March 2025 at 22:27:56 UTC+2 John Clark wrote:
> *It seems like every day something important is happening in AI, there is > an explosion of new ideas. The latest advance is Mercury, the first Large > Language Model that works by diffusion not transformers, it starts with > random gibberish and then refines it, this technique had worked before but > only in generating art, nobody could get it to work for language until > today. The advantage is the program is smaller than transformer AIs and > it's much faster because it works on the entire output at the same time not > one bit at a time as transformers do; it seems to be especially good at > writing computer code. For me the most exciting thing is that it offers an > entirely new pathway towards AI. * > > *Whenever I get upset by reading the front page of today's newspapers I > calm down by reflecting that Donald Trump and his clown car cabinet are > small potatoes compared with the AI earthquake that is about to hit. * > > *LLM generates the ENTIRE output at once (world's first diffusion LLM)* > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1rD3NhlIcE&t=23s> > > > * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* > rcc > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/99835664-53bd-43e1-8c35-a9ea1dbe06d5n%40googlegroups.com.

