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Computer Science
You can patch a bug in code. You cannot patch a model that learned the wrong thing
A software vulnerability lives in a line someone wrote and can be rewritten. An AI vulnerability lives in a learned function nobody wrote, and the most important one — prompt injection — has no accepted fix at all.
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Training the model is the one-time cost. Answering your question is the bill that never stops
Everyone quotes the electricity a model burned during training. For anything widely used, that is the smaller number. Here is what a GPU is actually doing, why memory rather than arithmetic is usually the limit, and why published per-query energy figures differ by a factor of a hundred.
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Machine learning, explained without the jargon
Machine learning is behind spam filters, recommendations and modern AI — but the core idea is simpler than the buzzwords suggest. Here is how a machine actually 'learns'.
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