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What’s up with all the AI hype?

I gave a short presentation to my unit yesterday and thought that perhaps others might be interested. You can find it in the CORE repository, and if you have further resources or comments feel free to send them my way.

What's up with all the AI hype? Authored by Bonnie Russell, Project Manager, Mesh Research, Michigan State University, June 21, 2023. Title: The Rise in AI The current rise of large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT and Bard and image-generating apps like Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney have led to a surge in hype and media coverage. Title: LLMs vs “Artificial Intelligence” Bullet 1: LLMs are trained on data, but humans are required to label that data prior to ingestion - largely done by poorly paid people in the Global South Bullet 2: These models are not in and of themselves equivalent to human intelligence, they’re predictive text engines