In 23 months, the same capability that needed 1.8 trillion parameters now fits in 4 billion parameters. A 450x compression.

That is a situation we are now living through, and it is no coincidence that the democratic conversation is breaking down all over the world because the algorithms are hijacking it. We have the most sophisticated information technology in history and we are losing the ability to talk with each other to hold a reasoned conversation.

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Using chemicals to improve our economy of attention and become emotionally "fitter" is an option that penetrated public consciousness some time ago.

They have become more significant because social interaction is governed by social convention to a much lesser extent than it was fifty years ago.

Koo's discovery makes it possible to peek inside the black box and identify some key features that lead to the computer's decision-making process.

As the largest Voronoi regions belong to the states on the frontier of the search, this means that the tree preferentially expands towards large unsearched areas.

Algorithms will privilege some forms of ‘knowing’ over others, and the person writing that algorithm is going to get to decide what it means to know… not precisely, like in the former example, but through their values. If they value knowledge that is popular, then knowledge slowly drifts towards knowledge that is popular.