Columbia's AI in Context course traces biology to LLMs in one arc
vishalmisra · x · 2026-10-04
Vishal Misra introduces his module "From NN to LLM: Rise of the Machines" in Columbia's interdisciplinary AI in Context course, which starts from biological neurons and follows the abstraction all the way to modern LLMs, explicitly pushing back on the idea that brains are literally neural networks.
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