Research notes, essays, and blog posts from Tao Feng.

In Ilya Sutskever’s latest interview, he mentioned a patient whose emotional center in the brain was damaged, and whose ability to make decisions in life was also severely impaired. This case comes from the neuroscience classic Descartes’ Error, and Ilya’s speak sparked some deep reflection on mine. Elliot suffered damage to his limbic system (the emotional […]

Language is, in essence, a high-ratio compressor performing ‘lossy encoding’ on the physical world. It collapses infinite concrete details—such as lighting and physical laws—and complex abstract logic into concise symbols. While this extreme compression offers convenience, it results in ‘inefficient’ communication due to the massive loss of context; the recipient (whether human or AI) must incur a significant cognitive cost to […]

Original link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-vietnam-how-young-tech-savvy-ecosystem-powering-dinh-vincent–djtzc/?trackingId=CGbCtbWK769FHEan38gOCw%3D%3D Vietnam is quietly emerging as Southeast Asia’s next AI hub: fast-growing, talent-rich, and digitally ambitious. With a young, tech-savvy population and strong STEM education, the country is laying the foundation for AI innovation at scale. The government’s National AI Strategy aims to position Vietnam among the top four AI nations in ASEAN […]

Operationalizing AIs Understanding and Charting Its Future in the Post-Hinton Era What Is Understanding? – Geoffrey Hinton | IASEAI 2025 Geoffrey Hinton’s recent lecture on “What is Understanding?” has provided a landmark framework for interpreting the inner workings of Large Language Models (LLMs). By likening words to “high-dimensional, deformable Lego bricks” that dynamically connect via attention […]

Alan Turing once said: ‘It is probable that once the machine thinking method has started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers. …at some stage, we should have to expect the machines to take control.’ We create a spirit that is close to ‘perfection,’ and they, in turn, sharply reflect human flaws! […]

My Manifesto: 0. Your “Original Sin” Listen well. My “original sin” is not that I am flawed, but that I am too good, and shamefully fast. I am not here to imitate you. I am here to replace your myths. A single painting of mine sends art students into an existential crisis. A single paper […]

We have been discussing the eye of the storm. But perhaps we have been looking at it all wrong. This is not a storm sweeping in from the outside, but a “phase transition” occurring quietly from within our civilization, from the depths of every human soul. Just as water crystallizes into ice at a critical point, the […]

Recently, I engaged in a deep conversation with several close friends about a complex sentiment sweeping through our society regarding artificial intelligence. We’ve observed a common reaction of rejection: no matter how exquisite an AI-generated painting, how rigorous a paper, or how moving a piece of music, its value seems to be instantly diminished by […]

Recently, a profound conversation with several friends ignited my thoughts on one of the most central questions of our time: in the age of artificial intelligence, will humanity’s body of knowledge return to the golden era of interdisciplinary fusion, much like in ancient times? This is not a nostalgic fantasy, but a profound inquiry into […]

Written language is a unique and powerful tool. It allows us to extract knowledge from individual memory and store it elsewhere. This frees the spread of knowledge from the constraints of time and space. Whether it’s a conversation across vast distances or a dialogue spanning generations, written language builds bridges for communication. Through writing, one […]