Paul Taylor
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Paul Taylor
@paul3548.bsky.social
Professor of Health Informatics at UCL. Interested in AI, data science and health.
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‘OpenAI hides its models’ reasoning from users, perhaps because the content would reveal the extent to which it has infringed the intellectual property of the writers and publishers whose material its models are trained on.’

Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · AI Wars
Deepseek was set up as a research initiative unconstrained by commercial imperatives, with the aim of achieving...
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March 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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‘One very simple way to address a language model’s deficiencies in problem-solving is to express problems not as exercises in reasoning but in the generation of language.’

Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on DeepSeek and problem-solving AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · AI Wars
Deepseek was set up as a research initiative unconstrained by commercial imperatives, with the aim of achieving...
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March 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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March 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Discussion of LLMs moving on from generating text to solving problems. Interesting to see how far this will go, given they are machines for generating text. See this at @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
March 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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‘AI research has paid a huge amount of attention to language models; value networks have received less attention, but these are huge artefacts, similar in scale to the language models themselves, and vastly expensive to develop.’

Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · AI Wars
DeepSeek’s most impressive technical innovation is MLA or Multi-Head Latent Attention. A large language model is...
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March 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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‘OpenAI hides its models’ reasoning from users, perhaps because the content would reveal the extent to which it has infringed the intellectual property of the writers and publishers whose material its models are trained on.’

Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · AI Wars
DeepSeek’s most impressive technical innovation is MLA or Multi-Head Latent Attention. A large language model is...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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‘R1 gets to the right answer eventually, and provides a succinct explanation, but only after what seems an absurd display of self-doubt and overthinking.’

Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on DeepSeek: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · AI Wars
When​ DeepSeek announced the release of its chatbot in January, there was widespread bewilderment. How had a Chinese...
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March 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Reposted by Paul Taylor
... Thomas Meaney on the German elections
Adam Mars-Jones on Dominique Fernandez
Alex Harvey on Powell and Pressburger
Michael Hofmann on Paul Valéry
Francis Gooding on Picasso
Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on DeepSeek
and poems by Paula Bohince.

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March 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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‘A reduced version of R1 is publicly available. Anyone can download a model which, in theory, is almost as good as the state of the art, and will, in theory, run on a laptop.’

Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) assesses China’s DeepSeek AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · AI Wars
When​ DeepSeek announced the release of its chatbot in January, there was widespread bewilderment. How had a Chinese...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM