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BT embraces small satellites to connect internet black spots in the UK

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Engineers installed BT portable earth stations to receive satellite Internet signals from the OneWebs (BT) satellite constellation The UK’s space ambitions are really heating up and that means we could soon see many new smarter consumer services powered by satellite data and super-fast, near-instantaneous internet speeds over the next few years. In fact, sometimes when … Read more

A new study from the University of Wisconsin investigates how small transformers trained by random initialization can efficiently learn arithmetic operations using the next token prediction goal

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03381 For various downstream tasks, including language and code translation, compositional thinking, and fundamental arithmetic operations, large language models such as GPT-3/4, PaLM, and LaMDA exhibited general characteristics, sometimes emergent abilities. Perhaps surprisingly, the model’s training goal, which is often an autoregressive loss based on predicting the next token, doesn’t directly encode these goals. These … Read more