Philippe Cochin
I make invisible things visible. I’m a French lead dev / CTO who builds language-model systems for a living. In Singapore I built a quantum optics simulator that thousands of students learn from; I work on two open problems in number theory, write a lot of code, and make jewellery and songs. More about me, or write to me.
Posts
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Narrowing: one measurement for jokes, songs and proofs
One number, the pointwise mutual information between a line and its setup, tested on jokes, three thousand songs, four thousand Lean proofs and an EEG rig. -
Talk notes: generative AI and education
Talk notes: what learning means for a machine, from the perceptron to generative AI, for teachers. -
From silicon to language: how does metal think?
Talk notes: from the transistor to the LLM in three steps, the automaton, the neural network, the language model, with the links to redo everything yourself. -
LLMs and AI ethics
Notes from a talk to a panel of ethicists: why "intelligence" is the wrong word, what next-token prediction is and is not, and what a tailor-made religion would cost.