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230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Rethink Your Intuition on Model Interpolation

Intuition regarding interpolation in specific, narrow domains often falls short when applied to large language and image generation models. These models' processes involve a fundamentally distinct form of interpolation that contrasts sharply with traditional nearest neighbor pixel interpolation in lossy image decompression. The key takeaway is that generative models operate through a novel generative process in inference rather than simple brute force memorization, highlighting the limitations of human intuition in understanding complex, high-dimensional vector spaces.

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