Making Sense of the Promise (and Risks) of Large Language Models

While ChatGPT and similar tools have monopolized much of our collective attention in recent months, large language models (LLMs)—the infrastructure behind all those chat outputs we endlessly share, screenshot, and occasionally shake our heads at—have remained in (relative) obscurity.

On a certain level, it makes sense: when you watch a show on your laptop, you focus on the plot and the characters, not on the electric grid that makes those moving pixels possible. If you’re eating a cookie right now …

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