{"id":13631,"date":"2025-12-26T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=13631"},"modified":"2026-11-04T19:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:07:04","slug":"some-thoughts-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/some-thoughts-on-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is there an alternative architecture? Can we build distributed open source rules bases? What is the learning layer? Does it inhibit innovation? See the comments for a record of how this page was amended. Below, or overleaf are my notes and links &#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Innovation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/ais-black-hole-david-levy-quzwe\/\">AI&#8217;s black hole<\/a> by me on linkedin, on how copyright limits AIs&#8217; knowledge base.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I asked google, &#8220;how does AI diminish innovation&#8221;, it <a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/aimode\/j0qnBjBZYT1RvOMgc\">replied &#8220;Yes&#8221;<\/a>, through homogenisation, an optimisation preference, limited solution testing, and unwarranted trust. Google also offers a series of white papers on the topic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links on the science<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Google Gemini, on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/gemini.google.com\/app\/98fb327195eee7e0\">What is the information systems architecture of an LLM<\/a>? Please document sources?&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In trying to get to the bottom of the architecture, I asked google, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/aimode\/ZjbekFLDSiWzBjubF\">Which neural network products are used by the top LLMs?<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And followed that up by asking google gemini, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/gemini.google.com\/app\/b7d3df9e4f892a02\">What is a transformer neural net? Please quote sources?<\/a>&#8220;. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, this white paper came out recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Google on <a href=\"https:\/\/sumsub.com\/media\/news\/google-deepmind-researchers-map-out-ways-hackers-hijack-ai-agents\/\">how to attack an LLM<\/a>, a white paper<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instaclustr.com\/education\/open-source-ai\/top-10-open-source-llms-for-2025\/\">https:\/\/www.instaclustr.com\/education\/open-source-ai\/top-10-open-source-llms-for-2025\/<\/a>, from instacluster; I have skimmed this once, there are some interesting things here.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prismetric.com\/how-to-build-ai-agent-with-deepseek\/\">https:\/\/www.prismetric.com\/how-to-build-ai-agent-with-deepseek\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomer.io\/blog\/ask-astro-open-source-llm-application-apache-airflow\/\">https:\/\/www.astronomer.io\/blog\/ask-astro-open-source-llm-application-apache-airflow\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Google AI insights says, &#8220;The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) does not develop a single, proprietary large language model (LLM) itself. Instead, it provides a foundation of <strong>open-source projects and tools<\/strong> that are widely used to build, manage, operationalize, and deploy LLM-powered applications and workflows.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, and I need to look more, it seems none of these are about the rules base, I wonder if that&#8217;s deliberate and caused by the search engines and new players enclosing their search indexes. We&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/enrique-dans\/the-long-tail-lockdown-how-google-is-quietly-fencing-off-the-internet-for-itself-82500bc767ef\">already learnt Google are doing this<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I have found a lot on the topic, here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/davelevy?query=%23artificialintelligence\">my bookmarks tagged &#8216;artificialintelligence<\/a>, and also the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/rss\/user\/davelevy?key=a702febeb9ddfeb5f48dcaa9f8e98a99&amp;query=%23artificialintelligence&amp;sort=updated\">the  rss feed&#8217;<\/a>, here are the most recent six<\/p>\n\n\n<div>An error occurred while fetching the feed.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there an alternative architecture? Can we build distributed open source rules bases? What is the learning layer? Does it inhibit innovation? See the comments for a record of how this page was amended. 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