What an unnecessarily wordy article. It could have been a fifth of the length. The actual point is buried under pages and pages of fluff and hyperbole.
A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
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#23What an unnecessarily wordy article. It could have been a fifth of the length. The actual point is buried under pages and pages of fluff and hyperbole.
Yes, and I agree and it seems like the author has a naïve experience with LLMs because what he’s talking about is kind of the bread and butter as far as I’m concerned
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#24What an unnecessarily wordy article. It could have been a fifth of the length. The actual point is buried under pages and pages of fluff and hyperbole.
Summarize it with an LLM.
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#25Author says "It is the most amazing thing I have seen an LLM do, and it was unprompted, entirely accidental." and then jumps back to the "beginning of the story". Including talking about a trip to Canada. Skip to the section headed "The Ultimate Test" for the resolution of the clickbait of "the most amazing thing...". (According to him, it correctly interpreted a line in an 18th century merchant ledger using maths an…
The new model may or may not be great at handwriting but I found the author's constant repetition about how amazing it was irritating enough to stop reading and to wonder if the article itself was slop-written.
"users have reported some truly wild things" "the results were shocking" "the most amazing thing I have seen an LLM do" "exciting and frightening all at once" "the most astounding result I have ever seen" "made the hair stand up on the back of my neck"
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#26This might just be a handcrafted prompt framework for handwriting recognition tied in with reasoning - do a rough pass, make assumptions and predictions, check assumptions and predictions, if they pass, use the degree of confidence in their passage to inform what the other characters might be, and gradually flesh out an interpretation of what was intended to be communicated.
If they could get this to occur naturally - with no supporting prompts, and only one-shot or one-shot reasoning, then it could extend to complex composition generally, which would be cool.
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#27No, just another academic with the ominous handle @generativehistory that is beguiled by "AI". It is strange that others can never reproduce such amazing feats.
I don't know if I'd call it an 'amazing feat', but claude had me pause for a moment recently. Some time ago, I'd been working on a framework that involved a series of servers (not the only one I've talked to claude about) that had to pass messages around in a particular fashion. Mostly technical implementation details and occasional questions about architecture. Fast forward a ways, and on a lark I decided to ask in…
Are you sure it isn't just a case of a write-up of the project appearing in the training data?
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#28I haven’t seen this new google model but now must try it out. I will say that other frontier models are starting to surprise me with their reasoning/understanding- I really have a hard time making (or believing) the argument that they are just predicting the next word. I’ve been using Claude Code heavily since April; Sonnet 4.5 frequently surprises me. Two days ago I told the AI to read all the documentation from my…
Predicting the next word requires understanding, they're not separate things. If you don't know what comes after the next word, then you don't know what the next word should be. So the task implicitly forces a more long-horizon understanding of the future sequence.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
We got the results back. You are a horrible person. I’m serious, that’s what it says: “Horrible person.” We weren’t even testing for that.
Source: Portal 2, you can see the line and listen to it here (last one in section): https://theportalwiki.com/wiki/GLaDOS_voice_lines_(Portal_2)...
I figured it was appropriate given the context.
I’m still amazed that game started as someone’s school project. Long live the Orange Box!
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#30Betteridge's law surely applies.