Mark Riedl·Aug 13, 2025The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work, Part IIIn the previous post, we explored the intuition behind how large language models work. From those intuitions, we were able to draw some…A response icon6A response icon6
Mark Riedl·Aug 7, 2025The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work, Part ILarge Language Models (LLMs) are fancy artificial neural networks. But you don’t have time to learn the math or engineering. Unfortunately…A response icon11A response icon11
Mark Riedl·Apr 18, 2025Visualizing the Influence of Federal Funding on the AI BoomThe Transformer was invented in Google. Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) was not invented in industry labs, but is most…A response icon4A response icon4
Mark Riedl·Nov 26, 2024Transformers: OriginsAn unofficial origin story of the transformer neural network architecture.A response icon1A response icon1
Mark Riedl·Nov 12, 2024Clawed: A Language Model Written in ScratchThis blog post started as a joke Claude is the name of the Large Language Model from Anthropic. It also sounds like “clawed”, which sounds…A response icon6A response icon6
Mark Riedl·Aug 3, 2023Toward AGI — What is Missing?Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a term for Artificial Intelligence systems that meet or exceed human performance on the broad…A response icon30A response icon30
Mark Riedl·Apr 14, 2023A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype1. IntroductionA response icon135A response icon135
Mark Riedl·Jan 4, 2021An Introduction to AI Story GenerationA primer for those interested in artificial intelligence for story generation.A response icon4A response icon4
Mark Riedl·Aug 24, 2020AI Democratization in the Era of GPT-3The following is a collection of thoughts that I put together on the topic of AI democratization. Some of the points below were quoted in…A response icon2A response icon2
Mark Riedl·Jan 3, 2019Machine Learning Meets Interactive StoriesOn Friday, December 28th Netflix aired a special episode of their Black Mirror series called Bandersnatch. What made Bandersnatch…