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Welt am Draht

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  • Is someone speaking?

    Language models answer in the first person. Why that reveals nothing yet about an inner life – and why the question still deserves to be taken seriously.

  • World on a wire

    How a language model picks the next word: a short technical approach to probabilities, temperature and the illusion of certainty.

  • The thirst of data centres

    Power, cooling water, land: the digital has a landscape. An attempt to ask the right questions before quoting numbers.