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BUILDING A WEB SEARCH ENGINE FROM SCRATCH IN TWO MONTHS WITH 3 BILLION NEURAL EMBEDDINGS

Search engines seem to be getting worse. Better quality results should rank higher than the prolific inorganic content and engagement bait everywhere today. Transformer-based text embedding models show amazing natural comprehension of language - this technology can be used to find great content, insights, and references. This article details a project where a developer tries to build a web search engine from scratch using neural embeddings. Embeddings appear far more powerful than traditional search.

35 THOUGHTS ABOUT AGI AND 1 ABOUT GPT-5

GPT-5's release felt uneventful. It is still not Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and it still gets things wrong - the model is supposed to be able to decide for itself whether it needs to use its thinking mode for harder problems, but many reports show that it often gets this wrong. Large language models perform well with crystallized knowledge, which masks their shortcomings with fluid intelligence. AGI has the potential to change how we do everything very soon after it is achieved, but we still have to figure out how to get there.

CHINA'S VISION FOR A DRIVERLESS FUTURE IS MILES AHEAD OF EVERYONE ELSE'S

China's autonomous vehicle industry is nearing a tipping point. The country is already the world's largest auto market and a global leader in electric and autonomous vehicles. By 2030, a fifth of new cars sold in China will be fully driverless, and 70% will feature advanced assisted-driving technology. The country's push to build infrastructure gives it a significant advantage in deploying autonomous vehicles. Its AV market shows no sign of slowing - many regions will want to partner with China to upgrade their infrastructure.

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