Stephen Downes

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When I say 'AI is just math' it really sounds like I'm just waving my hands. This article adds all the detail you could want to that statement, and for extra measure is lavishly illustrated, making the math jump off the page. It takes you all the way from simple quantification of input data through to ternary values and BitLinear layers. I know AI has its sceptics, but at a certain level scepticism dissolves into questioning whether math actually works (which it does, but as always, whether any math applies to the world or our perceptions of it is always an empirical question). This and two others today via Data Science Weekly 663.

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