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AI Hallucination is Inevitable

In a published article, “Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models“, authors Ziwei Xu et al. recognize the following: “[It is] impossible to eliminate hallucination in LLM.” “Hallucination has been widely recognized to be a significant drawback for large language models (LLMs). There have been many works that attempt to reduce the extent of hallucination. These efforts have mostly been empirical so far, which cannot answer the fundamental question whether it can… Read More »AI Hallucination is Inevitable

“(AI) World models should not be generative”

Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta, made an interesting post on LinkedIn about AI world models: Post | Feed | LinkedIn. The short post may just be one of the most important posts on AI. “World models should not be generative.” I always knew this was the case, but it is great to see empirical confirmation. If one is willing to go beyond the mere empirical, he may start to see the… Read More »“(AI) World models should not be generative”

TikTok and the digital info pig field

TikTok is based on the realization that over 90% of digital information consumers are simply “digital pigs” who will eat whatever is fed to them. I don’t wish to comment on the politics behind TikTok controversy, but here is the founding philosophy behind TikTok: ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, was founded in China in 2012 by Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo based on an “epiphany” from their observation of the field of digital information:… Read More »TikTok and the digital info pig field

The future of blockchain

In contrast to a corrupt future of the world exploited by crypto, the real Bitcoin blockchain is creating a different one. Crypto does not represent the true blockchain technology. It is a distortion at best. With its promotion of outright open Ponzi schemes, it is a fraudulent misrepresentation. In contrast to crypto, the future of true blockchain technology paints a healthy picture of a world supported by a New Internet integrated with blockchain. Regardless of… Read More »The future of blockchain

Crypto and trans-bubbles

The crypto industry is largely an empty bubble that will burst. Economic and financial bubbles are interesting phenomena to study. The ‘physics’ of bubbles is quite universal. The crypto bubble may seem unique, but it obeys the same law of bubbles. The trans-bubbles The most spectacular bubbles take advantage of both an expanding force and a squeezing force. The former attracts participants by taking advantage of people’s nearsightedness and greed, but the latter forces out… Read More »Crypto and trans-bubbles

AI and data decentralization

In the current Artificial Intelligence (AI) development, Meta comes out competing on a different principle: opensourcing AI. Some worry that opensourcing AI would enable illicit actors (both state and private actors) to do harm. I have not formed an opinion about Meta’s open-sourcing AI, but this pushing back with a comparison between bioweapons and AI is dubious at best.  When it comes to physical weapons, decentralization is proliferation.   You get bombed not because you agreed with the… Read More »AI and data decentralization

Using smart contracts to manage real-world contracts

Using smart contracts on a blockchain to manage certain aspects of regular contracts such as status (validity, termination, etc.) monitoring, renewing, or rolling has broad business applications. Note that it is not to use a smart contract to replace a regular contract. Doing such would be impractical in many cases. By “regular contract”, I mean real business contracts in a legal sense. These can be vastly more complex than the so-called smart contracts. Not only… Read More »Using smart contracts to manage real-world contracts

Gold is superior money, and tokenized gold is a superior currency

The famous gold advocate Peter Schiff has always claimed that BTC has no value. He is right. But he has started to see that gold can be tokenized on a capable blockchain. Tokenization on a proper blockchain is a form of digitization but has unique advantages over the traditional digitization of gold, such as gold...

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Merging Digitality and Physicality

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The tokenized Internet

People’s mindset about NFT today is still that an NFT is some kind of an artifact one can look at, speculate and trade. But think broadly. Think about a future in which every ‘datum’ or ‘monad’, namely a unit of data or a data entity is represented by an NFT. This is not for the sake...

Read more... The full content of this chapter is available in the two-volume book:

Bit & Coin

Merging Digitality and Physicality

Volume I: Digital Humanity’s Truth Layer - The New Internet, its Authenticity Layer, and Applications
Introduction
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Volume II: Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Beyond - Essays of Science, Economics, Law, Ethics, and Controversies
Introduction
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Tesla’s patent strategy

Elon Musk doesn’t care about patents. See for example this report by IPwe. But this is cleverly played by Elon.   The biggest reason why Tesla isn’t patenting is China. The truth is that: (1) because there is no such a thing called ‘international patent’, a US patent has absolutely no protection in China; (2) even if you have a patent in China, the patent protection is still weak in that country.  This poses a dilemma for… Read More »Tesla’s patent strategy