Ashish Sinha

64 posts

Why Emergence occurs

Recent findings like these suggest at least two possibilities for why emergence occurs, said Ellie Pavlick, a computer scientist at Brown University who studies computational models of language. One is that,…

Beyond Imitation

In 2020, Dyer and others at Google Research predicted that LLMs would have transformative effects — but what those effects would be remained an open question. This effort was called…

Transformer architecture in AI

In 2017, researchers at Google Brain introduced a new kind of architecture called a transformer. While a recurrent network analyzes a sentence word by word, the transformer processes all the words…

The Emergence of Emergence

Biologists, physicists, ecologists and other scientists use the term “emergent” to describe self-organizing, collective behaviors that appear when a large collection of things acts as one. Critically, emergent abilities show…

Rise of “emergent” abilities

LLMs can produce hundreds of “emergent” abilities — tasks that big models can complete that smaller models can’t, many of which seem to have little to do with analyzing text.…

Food and lifestyle habits that promote neurogenesis

A healthy diet, consistent good sleep, and regular workouts are all beneficial for the hippocampus, studies have shown. Exercise, socialization, and environmental enrichment-which means having plenty of stimulating activities-increases neuroogenesis.…

How new brain cells are grown

Actively working to fight off inflammation. Neurogenesis refers to new brain cell growth, neuroplasticity is where existing neurons grow and form different connections with each other. Important for shaping our…

How are brain cells destroyed?

High levels of chronic inflammation Inflammation not only disrupts brain circuity, it actively kills brain cells, too Chronic stress, eating a lot of processed sugar, processed meat, and refined carbs,…