![]() This black box is what is called the 'language model'. It reads text from web pages, dialogues, any sort of textual resource and trains itself, given a series of consecutive words, to predict what is the most likely next word to follow. This black box is given access to the whole web. Imagine a (virtual) black box sitting in your computer. Microsoft paid billions into a partnership with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, in order to integrate it into their search engine (Bing) and its Microsoft Teams software – though some argue it is just a matter of time before it becomes as commonplace as Microsoft Word’s spellchecker.īut why is everybody so focused on them? Much like a linear regression is a model to predict numbers, or a spam filter a model to predict spam, language models are a type of model built to predict language. AI companies want to make them, non-AI companies want to buy AI companies who make them. Large Language Models (or LLMs), of which ChatGPT is the most famous instance, are taking over the world of technology. Like a modern Cyrano de Bergerac i ChatGPT is everywhere, whispering into our ears so that we do not have to think. The holy grail of plagiarism, the secret weapon of false authorship, if I were to believe any of those tweets it would seem like ChatGPT is doing to the pursuit of knowledge what the pocket calculator did to mental mathematics decades prior – making it obsolete. ![]() ![]() It is difficult to read the news as an academic these days without hearing the tales of ChatGPT and the many dangers it brings upon us. ![]()
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