Dreaming is still a little understood phenomenon of the human psyche, although there is a steady but slow uptake in releated research [1,2]. Especially its purpose remains somewhat a mystery and many suggetions have been put forth [3,4]. In this short article I do not want to sketch a general…

It has been quite some time, but here we are again back at the counterfactual game and today I have a premiere for you. We have a guest who will be the second time on the show presenting an improved version of itself. …

Throughout the year 2021 many new interesting models were released (for instance GPT-J [1] or Megatron-Turing NLG [2]) others got updated (ERNIE 3.0 [3], PLATO-XL [4] and blenderbot 2.0 [5]), so it is quite difficult to pick the next target for our talking counterfactual series. …

I assume GPT-3 from OpenAI does not need an introduction. Released in summer 2020, it is a 175 billion parameter transformer based behemoth delivering state of the art performance in many NLP tasks. So, it’s an obvious choice to try out and see how it handles counterfactual conditionals. Other than…

In episode two of our new series, we take on Microsoft’s DialoGPT. It is a GPT-2 transformer-style architecture trained on 147 million Reddit discussion threads released in November 2019 [1,2]. Now, Reddit might not be the best spot to train your AI (so we heard 😉), but it is one…

With crass.ai getting ready for public beta, we thought it’s time to take it for a spin and have a dance with some of the recent LLMs (large language models). As a starting point, we chose facebook’s BlenderBot (for convenience followingly written without the second capital “B”). The Blenderbot is…

I guess this will be a Hello World, kind of. After having spent a decade in corporate and startup world I decided to utilize my skills and know-how in “advancing” society by helping to improve AI and NLP technology. Few months later we are at the verge of releasing the public beta of our first project called “crass.ai”. CRASS stands for Causal Reasoning ASSessment. And this it what it’s all about. It is a benchmarking tool to assess the performance of causal and conditional reasoning of LLM (Large Language Models).

This problem haunted me for years, so I’m going to do something about it, finally. (I know, everyone has different demons.) The basic question is as follows: “Why is the “Perfekt” tense in German classified as a form of past tense while in English “present perfect” is always said to…

This is just a piece of poetry, which came to my mind when reading medium in Sept. 2020, so take it with a grain of salt. Freezing cold showers All morning must dare Bill Gates cost my dollars My greatest dispair What happened to Missy I cannot explain The mist went too dissy On Buffett’s last reign