Posted on Tue 07 July 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with artificial intelligence, large language models, machine learning, neural networks, transformers, technology, explainer, podcasts
An explainer on how large language models actually work—tokens, embeddings, attention, parameters, training, and why the whole apparatus produces something that sounds so much like thinking.
Posted on Mon 29 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with jaron lanier, artificial intelligence, large language models, data dignity, data as labor, Landauer principle, network effects, privacy, GDPR, open source, virtual reality, Authors Guild, Anthropic, copyright, Norbert Wiener, StarTalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, podcasts
Jaron Lanier has spent thirty years arguing that AI is not a creature—it's a massive, largely involuntary collaboration of human labor dressed up in creature clothing. The outfit is doing a lot of work.