Finite-horizon dynamic programming chooses an action from each state and time, then follows one deterministic successor. How should the recursion change when an action induces a distribution of ...
It’s been a dizzying few weeks of “is AI reasoning and / or alive” discourse, with the attendant pushback that these systems are just fancy autocomplete. But back in March, Margaret Mitchell, one of ...
Early generative AI models, circa 2017-2022, were “stochastic parrots.” That is, they generated language by choosing the statistically most likely next word based on patterns in their training data, ...