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AI and Society Second Opinion

Can LLMs Synthesize New Knowledge?

My old friend Ryan Casey posed this question recently, and wrote up a nice theory with a proposed solution to the question which he calls Probabilistic Knowledge Synthesis (PKS). The purpose of my post here is to respond to Ryan’s theory and offer my own perspective on the question of whether LLMs can synthesize new […]

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AI Search

AI Search Will Break the Internet

The contract between creators and distributors of digital content is broken. The Contract Since the dawn of the Internet, the basic contract between search engines and content creators has been this: Content creation makes economic sense when search engines send large amounts of free traffic that can be converted to ad revenue by the creator. […]