Inside the Black Box: Cracking AI and Deep Learning
The Wug Test for AI
20 August 2026 11:37 Arshavir Blackwell, PhD
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This episode explores a modern twist on Jean Berko’s famous wug test, comparing how large language models handle made-up verbs versus familiar ones. It digs into tokenization, internal feature probes, and why neural networks seem to approximate grammar through probabilistic patterns rather than clean symbolic rules.
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