AIHacker Noonabout 7 hours ago
What Would Shannon Think About Today's AI?
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Modern AI systems run on Claude Shannon's 1948 information theory, making language models compressors. Training a model to predict text is mathematically identical to building a compressor. Research on 31 public LLMs found compression ability correlates with reasoning benchmarks at roughly 0.95.
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