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+ <p class="p">
+ The <strong class="strong">Lossy Computer Generator</strong> (<abbr title="Lossy Computer Generator">LCG</abbr>) is a new term that I have created to classify the specific type of <strong class="strong">Artificial Intelligence</strong> (<abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr>) that has currently become popular.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ The word "<em class="em">Lossy</em>" represents how parts of the original data is lost and reproduction of the original data is not likely to be identical.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ The words "<em class="em">computer generation</em>" plays on how data, as with Computer Graphics (<abbr title="Computer Graphics">CG</abbr>), is generated by the computer.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ <abbr title="Lossy Computer Generator">LCG</abbr> includes the currently popular forms of <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr> known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Large_language_model&oldid=1297407810" class="link external"><strong class="strong">Large Language Models</strong></a> (<abbr title="Large Language Models">LLMs</abbr>), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Small_language_model&oldid=1297349589" class="link external"><strong class="strong">Small Language Models</strong></a> (<abbr title="Small Language Models">SLMs</abbr>), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neural_network_(machine_learning)&oldid=1297333092" class="link external"><strong class="strong">Neural Networks</strong></a>.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ A <strong class="strong">Neural Network</strong> is a form of <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr> that has been around <em class="em">as far back as the late 1700s</em>.
+ Types of <strong class="strong">Neural Networks</strong> used today are: <abbr title="Large Language Models">LLMs</abbr> and <abbr title="Small Language Models">SLMs</abbr>.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ A <abbr title="Large Language Model">LLM</abbr> is what people are now casually calling <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr>.
+ A very simplified description of how an <abbr title="Large Language Model">LLM</abbr> works is that it copies the data into memory and remaps it into a modified form.
+ Restoring the mapped data requires re-creating the original data at run time, similar to how <abbr title="MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3">MP3</abbr> works.
+ This process is therefore <em class="em">lossy</em>.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ A <abbr title="Small Language Model">SLM</abbr> is a simplified version of an <abbr title="Large Language Model">LLM</abbr> that attempts to use fewer parameters and should require far less power (wattage).
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+ <p class="p">
+ The <strong class="strong">Lossy Computer Generator</strong> (<abbr title="Lossy Computer Generator">LCG</abbr>) is a new term that I have created to classify the specific type of <strong class="strong">Artificial Intelligence</strong> (<abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr>) that has currently become popular.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ The word "<em class="em">Lossy</em>" represents how parts of the original data is lost and reproduction of the original data is not likely to be identical.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ The words "<em class="em">computer generation</em>" plays on how data, as with Computer Graphics (<abbr title="Computer Graphics">CG</abbr>), is generated by the computer.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ <abbr title="Lossy Computer Generator">LCG</abbr> includes the currently popular forms of <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr> known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Large_language_model&oldid=1297407810" class="link external"><strong class="strong">Large Language Models</strong></a> (<abbr title="Large Language Models">LLMs</abbr>), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Small_language_model&oldid=1297349589" class="link external"><strong class="strong">Small Language Models</strong></a> (<abbr title="Small Language Models">SLMs</abbr>), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neural_network_(machine_learning)&oldid=1297333092" class="link external"><strong class="strong">Neural Networks</strong></a>.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ A <strong class="strong">Neural Network</strong> is a form of <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr> that has been around <em class="em">as far back as the late 1700s</em>.
+ Types of <strong class="strong">Neural Networks</strong> used today are: <abbr title="Large Language Models">LLMs</abbr> and <abbr title="Small Language Models">SLMs</abbr>.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ A <abbr title="Large Language Model">LLM</abbr> is what people are now casually calling <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr>.
+ A very simplified description of how an <abbr title="Large Language Model">LLM</abbr> works is that it copies the data into memory and remaps it into a modified form.
+ Restoring the mapped data requires re-creating the original data at run time, similar to how <abbr title="MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3">MP3</abbr> works.
+ This process is therefore <em class="em">lossy</em>.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ A <abbr title="Small Language Model">SLM</abbr> is a simplified version of an <abbr title="Large Language Model">LLM</abbr> that attempts to use fewer parameters and should require far less power (wattage).
+ </p>
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+ The <strong class="strong">Lossy Computer Generator</strong> (<abbr title="Lossy Computer Generator">LCG</abbr>) is a new term that I have created to classify the specific type of <strong class="strong">Artificial Intelligence</strong> (<abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr>) that has currently become popular.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ The word "<em class="em">Lossy</em>" represents how parts of the original data is lost and reproduction of the original data is not likely to be identical.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ The words "<em class="em">computer generation</em>" plays on how data, as with Computer Graphics (<abbr title="Computer Graphics">CG</abbr>), is generated by the computer.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ <abbr title="Lossy Computer Generator">LCG</abbr> includes the currently popular forms of <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr> known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Large_language_model&oldid=1297407810" class="link external"><strong class="strong">Large Language Models</strong></a> (<abbr title="Large Language Models">LLMs</abbr>), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Small_language_model&oldid=1297349589" class="link external"><strong class="strong">Small Language Models</strong></a> (<abbr title="Small Language Models">SLMs</abbr>), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neural_network_(machine_learning)&oldid=1297333092" class="link external"><strong class="strong">Neural Networks</strong></a>.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ A <strong class="strong">Neural Network</strong> is a form of <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr> that has been around <em class="em">as far back as the late 1700s</em>.
+ Types of <strong class="strong">Neural Networks</strong> used today are: <abbr title="Large Language Models">LLMs</abbr> and <abbr title="Small Language Models">SLMs</abbr>.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ A <abbr title="Large Language Model">LLM</abbr> is what people are now casually calling <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr>.
+ A very simplified description of how an <abbr title="Large Language Model">LLM</abbr> works is that it copies the data into memory and remaps it into a modified form.
+ Restoring the mapped data requires re-creating the original data at run time, similar to how <abbr title="MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3">MP3</abbr> works.
+ This process is therefore <em class="em">lossy</em>.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ A <abbr title="Small Language Model">SLM</abbr> is a simplified version of an <abbr title="Large Language Model">LLM</abbr> that attempts to use fewer parameters and should require far less power (wattage).
+ </p>
+
+ <section id="computers_are_ai" class="section">
+ <header class="section-header header separate">
+ <h2 id="computers_are_ai-title" class="section-title h h2">Computers are <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr></h2>
+ </header>
+
+ <div class="section-content">
+ <p class="p">
+ <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr> has been with us for numerous decades.
+ The first computer ever created is <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr>.
+ Even the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Punched_card&oldid=1296510525" class="link external">Punch Card Computer</a> is an <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr>.
+ To put it simply, <strong class="strong">Artificial Intelligence</strong> is something that, when given a choice between two or more options, will make a decision.
+ It seems to me that society, at large, has forgotten that <strong class="strong">Artificial Intelligence</strong> is both <em class="em">artificial</em> and has been with us for hundreds of years.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="computer_graphics_since_1800s" class="section">
+ <header class="section-header header separate">
+ <h2 id="computer_graphics_since_1800s-title" class="section-title h h2">Computer Graphics Since 1800s</h2>
+ </header>
+
+ <div class="section-content">
+ <p class="p">
+ <abbr title="Computer Graphics">CG</abbr> is a form of <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr> that today's society has seemingly spontaneously forgotten the existence of.
+ There have been many software products over the years that provide some form of <abbr title="Computer Graphics">CG</abbr>, such as <a href="https://inkscape.org/" class="link external">Inkscape</a>.
+ In fact, <abbr title="Computer Graphics">CG</abbr> has been with us for as far back as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Computer_graphics&oldid=1297410406" class="link external">late 1800s</a>.
+ Even movies have been utilizing this form of <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr> known as <abbr title="Computer Graphics">CG</abbr> for a very long time.
+ The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cathode-ray_tube&oldid=1294484547" class="link external">Braun Tube (in 1897)</a>, later called the <em class="em">Cathode Ray Tube</em>, is part of an earlier form of computer <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr> used for <abbr title="Computer Graphics">CG</abbr>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="audio_video_formats" class="section">
+ <header class="section-header header separate">
+ <h2 id="audio_video_formats-title" class="section-title h h2">Audio and Video Formats</h2>
+ </header>
+
+ <div class="section-content">
+ <p class="p">
+ Audio and Video formats operate in two primary different forms: <strong class="strong">lossy</strong>, and <strong class="strong">lossless</strong>.
+ A <strong class="strong">lossy</strong> format loses some of the original data and can rarely reproduce the original data.
+ A <strong class="strong">lossless</strong> format completely preserves the original data and can always reproduce the original data.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ Software protocols, such as <abbr title="MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3">MP3</abbr>, restructure the original audio into an alternate form in a <strong class="strong">lossy</strong> manner.
+ Such <strong class="strong">lossy</strong> formats require the computer to recreate the original audio, dynamically, at run time.
+ This is analogous to how an <abbr title="Large Language Model">LLM</abbr> might recreate information or video.
+ There are other formats, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FLAC&oldid=1296691256" class="link external">Free Lossless Audio Codec</a> (<abbr title="Free Lossless Audio Codec">FLAC</abbr>), that store the original audio without losing data.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ The popular <strong class="MPEG">Moving Picture Experts Group</strong> (<abbr title="Moving Picture Experts Group">MPEG</abbr>) is an example of another <strong class="strong">lossy</strong> format that is used for video.
+ The re-creation of an <abbr title="Moving Picture Experts Group">MPEG</abbr> video at run time is a resource intensive process that often requires specialized dedicated hardware chips.
+ This process can sometimes cause errors and glitches due, in part, to being a <strong class="strong">lossy</strong> format.
+ These errors and glitches are often a reason why people might see ghosts or spirits in these videos.
+ These errors and glitches are essentially an incorrect representation of the original data, similar to how <abbr title="Large Language Models">LLMs</abbr> produce incorrect data, commonly (and absurdly) called a "<em class="em">hallucination</em>".
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="what_all_means" class="section">
+ <header class="section-header header separate">
+ <h2 id="what_all_means-title" class="section-title h h2">What this All Means</h2>
+ </header>
+
+ <div class="section-content">
+ <p class="p">
+ <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr> is not new.
+ <abbr title="Large Language Models">LLMs</abbr> are not new.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ There already is software to perform many of the tasks that <abbr title="Lossy Computer Generation">LCG</abbr> is now being used to perform.
+ Those existing forms are often simpler, faster, more correct, and more accurate.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ A <abbr title="Lossy Computer Generator">LCG</abbr> is most useful when one doesn't know what to search for, doesn't know the commands, doesn't know the documentation, or lacks the appropriate skills (such as drawing).
+ This technology should be used like gears on a bicycle, amplifying any work performed, and treated like a compass, providing a generalized direction without dictating the actual paths taken.
+ </p>
+ <p class="p">
+ Understand what <abbr title="Artificial Intelligence">AI</abbr> is as well as what it is not.
+ If our society fails to do so, then we, as a society, are more likely to be worse off with this limited, misunderstood, and lossy technology.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </section>
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+ <strong class="strong">Kevin Day</strong>
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