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They call it 1.58-bit in the paper. (1.58 is roughly the base 2 logarithm of 3.)

So by “1-bit” they mean “less than 2 bits”. AI is an insufferable field at times like this.

What else are they going to call it? Nobody wants to say they wrote some two-bit paper about AI!

The whole thing is a bit of a scam