A broken 12-hour clock is correct for its assigned job – telling the time – twice a day. It is correct for an alternative job – being a paperweight – almost all the time. Then again, even as a paperweight, a broken clock might perform terribly if we use it to hold paper to a […]

In all my years as a researcher, I’ve never had so many friends and family members asking me about AI – chatbots, in particular. Even people that I would have described as fairly disinterested in tech in general have shared with me their experiences interacting with ChatGPT, or expressed that they are fearful and/or intrigued […]

The latest installment of our ongoing “AI and Trust” series comes in the form of a tech talk given by Galois Principal Scientist Shauna Sweet on March 6, 2023. In her presentation, Sweet helps us dig deeper to uncover the core ideas, concepts, and principles behind large language models (LLMs), tackling such central questions as: […]

“We assume that the neuron is the basic functional unit, but that might be wrong. It might be that thinking of the neuron as the basic functional unit of the brain is similar to thinking of the molecule as the basic functional unit of the car, and that is a horrendous mistake.” – John Searle […]

The public release of ChatGPT3 and DALL-E 2 radically changed our expectations for the near future of AI technologies. Given the demonstrated capability of large generative models (LGMs), the ways in which they immediately captured public imagination, and the level of publicized planned capital investment, we can anticipate rapid integration of these models into current […]