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Google Titans Model Explained: The Future of Memory-Driven AI Architectures

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Re: Google Titans Model Explained: The Future of Memory-Driven AI Architectures

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Post by tkgally »

PontifexMinimus wrote: post #21
bglazer wrote: post #7

This article gives off really strong chatgpt vibes. Bullet points! Confidently stated but quite vague statements! Integration, key innovations, more bullet points! Distinct lack of personal viewpoints or unique opinions! Very long! Maybe I’m being uncharitable and this is just the way things are written on Medium, but man this was not an easy or particularly enlightening read.

If true, it's got its grammar wrong: >At its core, Titans merge two powerful mechanisms: Should be "merges", since "Titans" as used here is a singular proper noun.

The paper the article is based on [1] treats “Titans” as a plural: “Titans are capable of solving problems beyond TC^0, meaning that Titans are theoretically more expressive than Transformers….”

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.00663

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Post by imjonse »

Something like this, using Simon Willison's llm cli, will give you a better experience than such generated articles unless your goal is explicitly to read blogs.

wget https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.00663 -O - | pdftotext - - | llm -s "Explain the following paper assuming I am familiar with deep learning" -m gpro

Advantages:

* put in any prompt you like

* pick any model (above gpro is alias for latest gemini pro if you have the llm-gemini plugin installed)

* ask for clarifications using llm chat -c (continue last conversation)

* no annoying random image

For another approach for this particular paper, Umal Jamil's videos are always high quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6kPQVejN4o

Re: Google Titans Model Explained: The Future of Memory-Driven AI Architectures

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Post by danpalmer »

pyinstallwoes wrote: post #13
bglazer wrote: post #7

This article gives off really strong chatgpt vibes. Bullet points! Confidently stated but quite vague statements! Integration, key innovations, more bullet points! Distinct lack of personal viewpoints or unique opinions! Very long! Maybe I’m being uncharitable and this is just the way things are written on Medium, but man this was not an easy or particularly enlightening read.

100% Header Paragraph List items Delve, here’s why, conclusion.

This is how I write, it’s how I was taught to write. It’s how ChatGPT writes because ChatGPT was trained to write in a clear way. Intro, paragraphs, and a conclusion are just table stakes for writing to persuade. List items are a very common way of communicating complex things. “Delve” is a common word.

By all means assume this was AI drafted (there are enough grammar mistakes that it has clearly been edited by a human with English as a second language), but this list of reasons is a bad one.

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Post by cmbailey »

bglazer wrote: post #7

This article gives off really strong chatgpt vibes. Bullet points! Confidently stated but quite vague statements! Integration, key innovations, more bullet points! Distinct lack of personal viewpoints or unique opinions! Very long! Maybe I’m being uncharitable and this is just the way things are written on Medium, but man this was not an easy or particularly enlightening read.

Yes, when I posted it, I had done a search for the article that most clearly explained the paper and this was, on its face, the best explanatory one. To paraphrase Swift, "A poor AI analysis can travel halfway around the world while the human writers are putting on their shoes.”

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Post by pyinstallwoes »

danpalmer wrote: post #34
pyinstallwoes wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

100% Header Paragraph List items Delve, here’s why, conclusion.

This is how I write, it’s how I was taught to write. It’s how ChatGPT writes because ChatGPT was trained to write in a clear way. Intro, paragraphs, and a conclusion are just table stakes for writing to persuade. List items are a very common way of communicating complex things. “Delve” is a common word. By all means assume this was AI drafted (there are enough grammar mistakes that it has clearly been edited by a hum…

This list is 99.9% hit rate.
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