Post Av8Lpy6UCYGjMOUfDc by vy@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Av8Lpy6UCYGjMOUfDc by vy@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T00:27:35Z
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Claude Shannon and John McCarthy predict LLMs in 1956
(DIR) Post #Av8Lpz4kaUTUNIgn9U by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-06-14T21:34:51Z
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@vy Find Shannon's '48 paper, Page 3. It describes the statistical nature of English text and goes step by step describing the sort inverse of an LLM. It is easy to imagine LLMs from Shannon's work. It's a rigorous paper but the descriptive sections are brilliant prose.