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Sotos Tsaftaris

@stsaftaris.bsky.social

Professor in ML & CV at University of Edinburgh, vios.science Director of CHAI chai.ac.uk Canon Medical/RAEng Chair in Healthcare AI. Fellow ELLIS (Views my own)

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Sotos Tsaftaris @stsaftaris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🧵7/7 Image Credits: Curiosamente alucinante

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Sotos Tsaftaris @stsaftaris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🧵 6/7 What other analogies can you draw between the book and LLMs? Think about learned embeddings, attention mechanisms, etc. Let's discuss! 👇 #Analogy #TechTalk

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Sotos Tsaftaris @stsaftaris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🧵 5/7 Now for the techy bit: The core principle at play is compositionality. The book combines lines to create poems, LLMs combine words, sub-word units, and learned representations to generate text. This combined with massive datasets and complex architectures, enables diverse and novel outputs.

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Sotos Tsaftaris @stsaftaris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🧵4/7 So next time you're amazed by an LLM's writing skills, remember Cent mille milliards de poèmes. It's a beautiful illustration of how a little creativity and a LOT of combinations can go a LONG way. 📚➡️💻 #RaymondQueneau #CentMilleMilliardsDePoemes

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Sotos Tsaftaris @stsaftaris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🧵3/7 Just like the book can create an almost infinite number of poems, LLMs can generate a mind-boggling variety of text. 🤯 From poems to code, emails to essays, it's all about combining the building blocks in new and creative ways. ✨ #ChatGPT #deepseek #gemini #claude

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Sotos Tsaftaris @stsaftaris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🧵 2/7 Think of it like this: each line in the book is like a word in an LLM's vocabulary. 🔤 The book's structure? That's like the LLM's grammar rules. ⚙️ And every new poem you create? That's like the LLM generating a unique sentence or story! ✍️ #Creativity #Innovation

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Sotos Tsaftaris @stsaftaris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🤯 One book 10 pages. 100 TRILLION poems. And how it helps us understand LLMs a 🧵 🤯 Cent mille milliards de poèmes, is a real book by Raymond Queneau! It lets you create 100,000,000,000,000 different sonnets just by mixing and matching lines! 🤯 #LLM #AI #Poetry #Books #MindBlown 🧵 1/7

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CHAI Hub @chaihubuk.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🌟 Excited to see our Director, @stsaftaris.bsky.social, featured in @edinnovations.bsky.social "Inspirational Innovators" series! A fascinating glimpse into the experiences and inspirations shaping his journey in AI and innovation. 💡 Read more: eil.ac/iisotiriosts... #AILeadership #Innovation #EI

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Sotirios Tsaftaris

Professor Sotirios (Sotos) Tsaftaris, is Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision. He also holds the Canon Medical/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Healthcare AI and is an ELLIS Fel...

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