How AI Works

7LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS: TRUE AI AT LAST?

Future historians might point to the fall 2022 release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT large language model as the dawn of true AI. Given what I’ve already seen as I write this in late March 2023, I would agree with such an assessment.

In this chapter, we’ll first explore what existing large language models can do, then follow that up with a description of what they are and how they work. For all their impressive abilities, ultimately these models are neural networks built and trained like all the neural networks that came before. That fact alone means the connectionists were right from the beginning. Might Frank Rosenblatt ...