Ep. 231 Understanding AI - part one

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“Large Language Models or LLMs are simply predicting what words would come next due to all of their learning.” Prompted by my husband's suggestion I have decided to have a series of episodes dedicated to understanding AI better. Instead of being scared of AI or simply ignoring it, I use the book, Co-Intelligence, Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick. Part one of this series is just a basic understanding of how the large language model came to be, like ChatGPT. I talk about the idea of a digital brain. I share how it had its initial learning with millions of words and information and the analogy of an apprentice chef learning to combine ingredients to make recipes. I then tell of the adding of human feedback to its learning of millions of words that it is learning. The key to all of this is adding certain weights to certain words to help AI better understand the human language. For a very complex machine - I try to keep it simple to understand the basics of what it is doing.

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Thanks to Seth Johnson for my intro and outro original music. I love it so much!