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You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to open and read documents and spreadsheets, or even edit ordelete entire databases. Whether this sounds like a good idea […]

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I've been experimenting with getting a tiny circa-2015 recurrent neural network to generate Halloween costumes. Running on a single cat hair-covered laptop,char-rnnhas no internet training, but learns from scratch to imitate the data I give it. A little while ago I revisited a dataset from 2018, over 7100 user-submitted Halloween costumes (3173 with exact duplicates

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I've recently been experimenting with one of my favorite old-school neural networks, a tiny program that runs on my laptop and knows only about the data I give it. Without internet training, char-rnn doesn't have outside references to draw on (for better or for worse) but it still manages to remix the data into interesting

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Botober 2025: Terrible recipes from a tiny neural net After seeing generated text evolve from the days of tiny neural networks to today's ChatGPT-style large language models, I have to conclude: there's something special about the tiny guys. Maybe it's the way the tiny neural networks string together text letter by letter just based on

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I'm not the only one who'snoticedthat some people, even journalists, will ask chatbots like ChatGPT why they did something, and then treat the chatbot's explanation as if it means anything. Or they'll ask the chatbot to generate an apology, and then treat its apology as if the chatbot is really reflecting on something it did

I'm not the only one who'snoticedthat some people, even journalists, will ask chatbots like ChatGPT why they did something, and then treat the chatbot's explanation as if it means anything. Or they'll ask the chatbot to generate an apology, and then treat its apology as if the chatbot is really reflecting on something it did