The past year of LLM research has focused on making the following improvements to the basic LLM machinery to overcome a number of LLM issues which are discussed elsewhere (for example, LLMs are not good at “inferring” or grokking rules…
Category: AI/ML
Revisiting the notion of “State” in World Models – what does it really mean?
A recent substack article on world models by Fei-Fei Li suggests a taxonomy of world models – renderers, simulators and planners. Embedded in the article is a brief blurb on the notion of “state” – as paraphrased below – “The…
Agentic AI – New wine in an old bottle or Old Wine in a new bottle?
What are Agentic AI systems? These are:“autonomous software systems that perceive, reason, and act in digital environments to achieve goals on behalf of human principals, with capabilities for tool use, economic transactions, and strategic interaction.” AI agents can employ standard building…
AI for Business and the Business of AI
Modern LLM-based AI has been the techno rage over the past 24-36 months (Crypto, blockchain, DeepLearning etc being in the rearview mirror). OpenAI with ChatGPT, Google with Gemini, Anthropic with Claude, Perplexity with its Computer and a wide variety of…
Are “LLMs” – good models ?
LLM’s – both the vanilla ones and the latest with different kinds of reasoning capabilities – are being positioned as a very viable “model” for the reality around us. The long-term vision is such a model – would enable us…
Book Summary – Promise of Artificial Intelligence, Reckoning and Judgement
Back to blogging after a long hiatus. The current pandemic has provided all of us ample downtime to reflect and regroup. One of the main tasks for me on the backburner has been an evergrowing reading list, which I have…