How Claude Shannon used his wife as a language model in 1950

Grant Sanderson's new 3Blue1Brown video starts from a 1940s question — how far can you compress text? — and arrives at why it matters for AI. The bridge is from Claude Shannon's information theory: "prediction and compression are mathematically equivalent," two sides of the same coin. — Read the rest The post How Claude Shannon used his wife as a language model in 1950 appeared first on Boing Boing.