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The blog

The blog is not a news diary about artificial intelligence: it is an extension of the course, in shorter texts.

The blog does not follow the news about artificial intelligence: the subject changes too fast for a site built to last to run after it. It extends the course Understand with shorter, more precise texts, in three forms only: a technical point explained all the way through, a public source taken apart sentence by sentence, or a use reported exactly as it happened. Like the rest of the site, every article cites its sources and says what is still debated.

The articles

What becomes of an uploaded file

What research measures about the fate of content handed to a service that uses AI, and the question to ask before uploading a file.

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AI detectors at school

What detectors of AI-generated text promise, what they actually do, and why their mistakes do not weigh on everyone in the same way.

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The checking routine

A concrete three-step routine for checking a summary produced by a machine, based on what research measures among the best professional fact-checkers.

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It does not know that it does not know

What it means, precisely, that a language model does not know that it does not know, and why its training rewards confidence over an admission of uncertainty.

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The price of a language

Why the same sentence costs more to process depending on the language it is written in, and what that reveals about the engineering choice behind cutting text into tokens.

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