S. Scardapane teases new book 'Strangers in a Latent Space' on language models
s_scardapane · x · 2026-11-12
Deep learning researcher Salvatore Scardapane announced he has been "cooking something new": a book titled Strangers in a Latent Space, subtitled "How language models learned our words, and then our world." The cover art features Hindi script flowing into embedding-space point clouds, signaling a narrative account of how LLMs moved from modeling language to modeling the world.
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