‘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...

‘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...

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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...

‘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...

‘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...

‘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...

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Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on DeepSeek
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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...