The Economist

Researchers are figuring out how large language models work

TO MOST PEOPLE, the inner workings of a car engine or a computer are a mystery. It might as well be a black box: never mind what goes on inside, as long as it works. Besides, the people who design and ...
Quanta Magazine

To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language

Language isn’t always necessary. While it certainly helps in getting across certain ideas, some neuroscientists have argued that many forms of human thought and reasoning don’t require the medium of ...
NERDBOT

Large Language Models (LLMs): Transforming Enterprise AI Development

Artificial intelligence has evolved rapidly over the last few years, and Large Language Models (LLMs) have become one of the ...
MIT Technology Review

Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model

What the firm found challenges some basic assumptions about how this technology really works. The AI firm Anthropic has developed a way to peer inside a large language model and watch what it does as ...
The Conversation

Large language models: how the AI behind the likes of ChatGPT actually works

The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new technological era. And they may indeed have significant impacts on ...
MIT Technology Review

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.

And that's a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models. Two years ago, Yuri Burda and Harri ...