Weekly Shaarli

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Week 45 (November 4, 2024)

How Austen and Darwin converged on the question of beauty | Aeon Essays
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Charles Darwin was as fascinated by extravagant ornament in nature as Jane Austen was in culture. Did their explanations agree?

Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Large language models can achieve incredible performance on some tasks without having internalized a coherent model of the world or the rules that govern it, MIT researchers find. This means these models are likely to fail unexpectedly if they are deployed in situations where the environment or task slightly changes.