From the course: Generative AI: Introduction to Large Language Models
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The evolution of large language models
From the course: Generative AI: Introduction to Large Language Models
The evolution of large language models
- [Presenter] When the ancients carefully recorded their knowledge on scrolls of papyrus and housed them in the legendary library of Alexandria, little could they have imagined that all that knowledge and more would be available at the fingertips of the descendants millennia later. That is the power and beauty of large language models. They can answer questions, summarize information, translate across languages, reason through problems, and even perceive and respond to sound and imagery. They represent one of humanity's most ambitious pursuits to capture and extend intelligence itself. The earliest foundations of large language models can be traced back to the 1950s when computer scientists first experimented with neural information processing systems. Their goal was simple yet revolutionary, to enable computers to process and generate human language. In 1954, IBM and Georgetown University demonstrated machine translation by…
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