Sunday, July 13, 2025

How Generative AI Works


With so much gobbledygook and technobabble being thrown around regarding generative AI, it is refreshing to have someone who knows what the hell he's talking about give a brief explanation on how this stuff actually works.  Here's such a talk by William Press, who you may recognize as the lead co-author of Numerical Recipes:


Fourteen pages total, though not counting the title and that-is-all slides, it drops to eleven.  What's more, the real meat is all on slides 6 & 8, though you'll want to read through the other nine.  I mean, we're talking what, a half-hour tops?  Then you'll be a freekin' genius in comparison to most of the babbleheads out there in the j-school and VC worlds going on about this stuff.

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