Geoff Ford

Political Science x Digital Methods

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  1. I’ve released an AI reading list for students focused on known issues with LLMs / gen AI. It’s released on Github. I’ll queue up some relevant things to add to it from time to time using this thread …

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  2. Here’s an interesting project to watch that is training LLMs on historic texts: History LLMs. They’ve indicated that data and models other outputs will be released at some point. The project trains LLMs on texts authored before specific dates (e.g. 1913), demonstrating that LLMs (even those trained on modern texts) are time-bound “compressed representations” of training texts.

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