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Brendan Barlow

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#large language models Open access Oct 2026

Continuing lines: selection, transmission and inheritance in two genealogies of open language models

Claims that artificial intelligence (AI) evolves are mostly argued by analogy. Open model hubs record which models were built from which. We applied the Price equation, which splits a change in a population's mean trait into selection and transmission terms, to two genealogies of open-weight language models. Among 1,27...

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#explainable ai Open access Sep 2026

Intelligence: information use and adaptive capability

Intelligence depends on how a system makes information usable, retains it and changes through experience. This perspective connects five established dependencies across biological and artificial systems: the conditional value of information, access through available operations, persistence relative to future demands, c...

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