Episode #2—How Large Language Models Work (Feat. Stephen Wolfram)

Have you tried to Google something recently? Like “how long does it take to make mac and cheese”? But before you can start to scroll down to the results, you get preempted with an AI-generated reply.

In this episode we explore:

• How large language models actually work, step by step

• An interview with one of the world’s top computer scientists, Stephen Wolfram, inventor of Mathematica

• The history of artificial intelligence and its rapid advance in recent years

• What AI can and can’t do, and why it matters.

… and much more! Listen here:

Ep. 2: 1440—How Large Language Models Work

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