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The Four Fallacies of Modern AI
And Why Believing in Them Hinders Progress
 • Alejandro Piad Morffis
The Most Beautiful Algorithms Ever Designed
A very opinionated short list.
 • Alejandro Piad Morffis
The Insurmountable Problem of Formal Reasoning in LLMs
Or why LLMs still can't, and probably never will be able to fully reason.
 • Alejandro Piad Morffis
Why reliable AI requires a paradigm shift
Hallucinations are the fundamental barrier for the widespread use of AI, and they won't be solved anytime soon.
 • Alejandro Piad Morffis
Artificial Neural Networks Are Nothing Like Brains
Busting the biggest public misconception in AI
 • Alejandro Piad Morffis
Using AI to Augment, Not Automate Your Writing
Implementing the CODER Framework with AI
 • Alejandro Piad Morffis
Building an AI Agent from Scratch
An upcoming series in The Computist Journal.
 • Alejandro Piad Morffis
The Power of Abstraction
Or how to think like a Computer Scientist.
 • Alejandro Piad Morffis
Chat with your PDF
Build a simple streamlit app using LLMs and vector databases to answer arbitrary questions from a PDF document
 • Alejandro Piad Morffis
AI-Driven Storytelling with Multi-Agent LLMs - Part I
Results of an Ongoing Research in the AI Group at the University of Havana
 • Franco Hernández Piloto and Alejandro Piad Morffis
Understanding Large Language Models
What is a LLM, how do you build one, and what can you do with it.
 • Alejandro Piad Morffis
Why everyone should learn to code
 • Alejandro Piad Morffis
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