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		idunnoman1222 on Sept 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Terence Tao on O1 How did this guy not know how large language models work? Fancy compression algorithm for all written knowledge, how could it invent that which was not an input ?

cwillu on Sept 15, 2024 [–]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2013

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize

It's not exactly a new conjecture that intelligence fundamentally is an act of compression.

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