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“Capture and Generate: The New Language of AI”: Leif Weatherby with Audrey Borowski

Event Time: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK
“Capture and Generate: The New Language of AI”
Leif Weatherby with Audrey Borowski

2023 was the year of GPT. As hype, and then panic, swept the public sphere after the release of ChatGPT, questions of policy, regulation, bias, and even apocalypse dominated the conversation. This talk focuses on the “T” in GPT: the Transformer architecture. Leif Weatherby will separate the hype from the genuine leap forward that has occurred, and argue that only a computational structural theory of language is suited to grasp what the “G” in GPT – generative – means as it goes from an algorithmic capacity to a general cultural condition. You can find out more and register here.