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Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing: How to Separating Fact from Fiction – Computerphile Part 3

What’s actually possible vs what’s theoretically possible vs what’s actually useful with quantum computing? Victor V. Albert of University of Maryland and NIST simplifies in this video is from Computerphile.

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AI Microsoft

Bing Chat Behaving Badly – Computerphile

This video is from Computerphile. AI moves quickly, this conversation was recorded March 3rd 2023. Microsoft have incorporated a large language model into the Bing search engine. Rob Miles discusses how it’s been going.

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Chatbots Generative AI

ChatGPT’s Sharp Edges: Glitch Tokens

Language Models’ Achilles heel: Rob Miles from Computerphile talks about “glitch” tokens, those mysterious words which, which result in gibberish when entered into some large language models.

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AI Generative AI Research

Ch(e)at GPT?

Mike from Computerphile explains a paper from the University of Maryland, proposing a neat trick to ‘watermark’ the output of large language models such as ChatGPT. Dr Mike Pound is an image analyst at the University of Nottingham. The University of Maryland paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.10226.pdf

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AI Generative AI Natural Language Processing

ChatGPT Explained by Rob Miles on Computerphile

I’ve been waiting for a video explaining ChatGPT from Computerphile and here it is.

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Interesting

Computerphile on Emulation

Computerphile explains emulation. Emulation sounds difficult, begins to look simple and then ends up being difficult after all! Dr Steve Bagley explains.

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Developer

Just In Time (JIT) Compilers – Computerphile

Dr Laurence Tratt of KCL explains why (under certain circumstances) JIT Compilers can be so much faster.

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AI

How to Verify AI ‘Black Boxes

Dr Hana Chockler is Reader in the Department of Informatics, King’s College London and Principal Scientist at causaLens and she explains how to check to see if a black box system is giving us the right result for the right reason?

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Interesting

What is Network Time Protocol (NTP)?

Just how do computers synchronise clocks across the Internet? Dr Julian Onions implemented this at Nottingham after meeting the godfather of Internet time, Dave Mills!

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AI

Robot Decision Making – Computerphile

Deterministic route finding isn’t enough for the real world – Nick Hawes of the Oxford Robotics Institute takes us through some problems featuring probabilities.

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