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Andrei Popescu-Belis
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Professor at HEIG-VD and adjunct senior scientist at EPFL
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I asked "on the other platform" what were the most important improvements to the original 2017 transformer.

That was quite popular and here is a synthesis of the responses:
April 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Found out during spell checking that 'français' has funny synonyms in MS Office, including 'saucy' or 'lewd' :
April 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Bien que le test de Turing soit discrédité depuis longtemps, certains semblent encore croire qu'il peut indiquer si une IA a atteint l'intelligence humaine.
Cet article explique pourquoi c'est une erreur: garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-has-sor...
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AI has (sort of) passed the Turing Test; here’s why that hardly matters
Don’t panic
garymarcus.substack.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Reposted by Andrei Popescu-Belis
Yes, DeepSeek R1's release is impressive. But the real story is what happened in just 7 days after:

Original release: 8 models, 540K downloads. Just the beginning...

The community turned those open-weight models into +550 NEW models on @huggingface. Total downloads? 2.5M—nearly 5X the originals.
January 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM