LLM - per Copilot/Chat GPT 4, Large Language Model (LLM): This refers to a type of artificial intelligence model that is capable of understanding and generating human language text. Large Language Models are trained on vast amounts of text data and can perform a variety of natural language processing tasks, such as text generation, classification, and more
The craziest part of the current “AI” scene is the rapidity. Right now, I can download a model from huggingface, set it up for local inference, and toss whatever I want at it. It can serve as an editor, an artist, a junior dev, or just a conversation to generate ideas. The abilities of these models have grown dramatically over the last few years. That’s pretty darned cool. The hype, of course, tells us that these systems will fundamentally transform the world. They might too, if they’re given time to advance. The problem is, this tech came about at a time when the US government is the single largest pool of money and power in the world, so the rush to government was swift. Now, the government will likely attempt to strangle everything that isn’t an incumbent, and we will have an AI winter.
Of course these companies also need runway. So far, no big AI bet has profitable and investors eventually expect payoffs.
LLM - per Copilot/Chat GPT 4, Large Language Model (LLM): This refers to a type of artificial intelligence model that is capable of understanding and generating human language text. Large Language Models are trained on vast amounts of text data and can perform a variety of natural language processing tasks, such as text generation, classification, and more
I appreciated this post as much for your explanation as I did for you setting out the historical context of the journey. Really helpful.
The craziest part of the current “AI” scene is the rapidity. Right now, I can download a model from huggingface, set it up for local inference, and toss whatever I want at it. It can serve as an editor, an artist, a junior dev, or just a conversation to generate ideas. The abilities of these models have grown dramatically over the last few years. That’s pretty darned cool. The hype, of course, tells us that these systems will fundamentally transform the world. They might too, if they’re given time to advance. The problem is, this tech came about at a time when the US government is the single largest pool of money and power in the world, so the rush to government was swift. Now, the government will likely attempt to strangle everything that isn’t an incumbent, and we will have an AI winter.
Of course these companies also need runway. So far, no big AI bet has profitable and investors eventually expect payoffs.