{"id":14659,"date":"2024-04-19T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=14659"},"modified":"2024-04-19T00:15:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T00:15:18","slug":"we-do-not-need-8-1-billion-ways-of-writing-down-the-sounds-we-make-and-encoding-those-in-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/?p=14659","title":{"rendered":"We do not need 8.1 Billion ways of writing down the sounds we make and encoding those in symbols."},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-rbd-draggable-context-id=\"1\" data-rbd-draggable-id=\"5piov\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"1ugmd\" data-offset-key=\"5piov-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"5piov-0-0\">\n<div data-rbd-draggable-context-id=\"1\" data-rbd-draggable-id=\"5piov\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"1ugmd\" data-offset-key=\"5piov-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"5piov-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5piov-0-0\">We do not need 8.1 Billion ways of writing down the sounds we make and encoding those in symbols. Sounds for words, symbols for sounds, a chaos of spellings and fonts. LLM groups choosing arbitrary local tokenizations and not using a finite set of global open tokens &#8211; with the cooperation, involvement, agreement and benefit of all 8.1 Billion humans (and related species and AIs) in the global mind. Grok that, EM.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-rbd-draggable-context-id=\"1\" data-rbd-draggable-id=\"9rv6g\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"1ugmd\" data-offset-key=\"9rv6g-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"9rv6g-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9rv6g-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-rbd-draggable-context-id=\"1\" data-rbd-draggable-id=\"739sc\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"1ugmd\" data-offset-key=\"739sc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"739sc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"739sc-0-0\">Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-rbd-draggable-context-id=\"1\" data-rbd-draggable-id=\"fkj09\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"1ugmd\" data-offset-key=\"fkj09-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"739sc-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14661 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/We-do-not-need-8.1-Billion-ways-of-writing-down-the-sounds-we-make-and-encoding-those-in-symbols4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/We-do-not-need-8.1-Billion-ways-of-writing-down-the-sounds-we-make-and-encoding-those-in-symbols4.png 930w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/We-do-not-need-8.1-Billion-ways-of-writing-down-the-sounds-we-make-and-encoding-those-in-symbols4-300x242.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/We-do-not-need-8.1-Billion-ways-of-writing-down-the-sounds-we-make-and-encoding-those-in-symbols4-768x619.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"739sc-0-0\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do not need 8.1 Billion ways of writing down the sounds we make and encoding those in symbols. Sounds for words, symbols for sounds, a chaos of spellings and fonts. LLM groups choosing arbitrary local tokenizations and not using a finite set of global open tokens &#8211; with the cooperation, involvement, agreement and benefit <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"\/?p=14659\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-knowledge","category-assistive-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14663,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions\/14663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}