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… Signaloid signed ARIA’s first funding contract, on improving the efficiency of large language models. Signaloid, a spin-out company of the University of Cambridge, hopes this work will contribute to wider efforts to stop the models ‘hallucinating’ information.

When it comes to data about the real world, it is typically a distribution of possible outcomes—some more likely than others—rather than a single point. Yet, computers make calculations with individual numbers that represent points rather than distributions; thus, estimating uncertainty becomes a lot of overhead. But what if a new way of implementing the maths within computers could inherently account for distributions and, thus, uncertainty?