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“Also, Shannon's original proposals for language modeling? And even earlier, Markov chains? In case it's helpful, I wrote a bit about the history here: oecs.mit.edu/pub/zp5n8ivs...”

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Grace Lindsay: Made this overview of the intellectual history leading up to today's LLMs for my course. Any "must-have" stepping stones I missed? #NeuroAI #compneurosky #neuroskyence
Melanie Mitchell: Did you mean to omit all of symbolic AI? Do you think all of that is irrelevant for LLM intellectual history?
Melanie Mitchell: Also, Shannon's original proposals for language modeling? And even earlier, Markov chains? In case it's helpful, I wrote a bit about the history here: oecs.mit.edu/pub/zp5n8ivs...
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