Language Models: A 75-Year Journey That Didn’t Start With Transformers

Language Models: A 75-Year Journey That Didn’t Start With Transformers

⋅

Introduction Language models have existed for decades — long before today’s so-called “LLMs.” In the 1990s, IBM’s alignment models and smoothed n-gram systems trained on hundreds of millions of words set performance records. By the 2000s, the internet’s growth enabled “web as corpus” datasets, pushing statistical models to dominate natural language processing (NLP). Yet, many believe language modelling began in 2017 with Google’s Transformer architecture and BERT. In reality, Transformers revolutionized scalability but were just one step in a much […]

Ver mais

Liked Liked
I Built a Tool That Turns 1-Hour YouTube Tutorials into 2-Minute “Code-Only” Memos

I Built a Tool That Turns 1-Hour YouTube Tutorials into 2-Minute “Code-Only” Memos

⋅

Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. Stop watching 20 minutes of “Hey guys, welcome back!” just to find one function. I have a confession. Image generated using AIThe article discusses the author’s development of a tool that efficiently extracts code from YouTube coding tutorials by utilizing the hidden transcripts that accompany the videos. The author details the motivation behind creating this tool, the technical stack used, and provides an overview of its efficacy, demonstrating significant time […]

Ver mais

Liked Liked
New AI agent learns to use CAD to create 3D objects from sketches

New AI agent learns to use CAD to create 3D objects from sketches

⋅

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is the go-to method for designing most of today’s physical products. Engineers use CAD to turn 2D sketches into 3D models that they can then test and refine before sending a final version to a production line. But the software is notoriously complicated to learn, with thousands of commands to choose from. To be truly proficient in the software takes a huge amount of time and practice. MIT engineers are looking to ease CAD’s learning […]

Ver mais

Liked Liked
Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool

Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool

⋅

Manufacturing better batteries, faster electronics, and more effective pharmaceuticals depends on the discovery of new materials and the verification of their quality. Artificial intelligence is helping with the former, with tools that comb through catalogs of materials to quickly tag promising candidates. But once a material is made, verifying its quality still involves scanning it with specialized instruments to validate its performance — an expensive and time-consuming step that can hold up the development and distribution of new […]

Ver mais

Liked Liked
Civil Disobedience of Copyright Keeps Science Going

Civil Disobedience of Copyright Keeps Science Going

⋅

Creating and sharing knowledge are defining traits of humankind, yet copyright law has grown so restrictive that it can require acts of civil disobedience to ensure that students and scholars have the books they need and to preserve swaths of culture from being lost forever. Reputable research generally follows a familiar pattern: Scientific articles are written by scholars based on their research—often with public funding. Those articles are then peer-reviewed by other scholars in their fields and revisions […]

Ver mais

Liked Liked
RAG Text Chunking Strategies: Optimize LLM Knowledge Access

RAG Text Chunking Strategies: Optimize LLM Knowledge Access

⋅

Author(s): Abinaya Subramaniam Originally published on Towards AI. If retrieval is the search engine of your RAG system, chunking is the foundation the search engine stands on. Even the strongest LLM fails when the chunks are too long, too short, noisy, or cut at the wrong place. That is why practitioners often say: “Chunking determines 70% of RAG quality.” Good chunking helps the retriever find information that is complete, contextual, and relevant while bad chunking creates fragmented, out […]

Ver mais

Liked Liked
Google Denies Report Claiming It Plans to Bring Ads to Gemini Chatbot

Google Denies Report Claiming It Plans to Bring Ads to Gemini Chatbot

⋅

Key Highlights: Google has been heavily criticized for sprinkling sponsored results across search results. No doubt, ads are one of the major driving forces of any company’s revenue. But when ads start getting in the way of how a user uses a product or service, things start to get annoying. Let’s be honest, we all hate ads, and when a new report circulated yesterday claiming that Google is mulling over the idea of showing ads in Gemini tools, […]

Ver mais

Liked Liked

Load More

↑

Digitado © 2025