The Next Generation Of Large Language Models

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left) and Meta AI chief Yann LeCun (right) have differing views on the future ... [ ] of large language models. In case you haven't heard, artificial intelligence is the hot new thing. Generative AI seems to be on the lips of every venture capitalist, entrepreneur, Fortune 500 CEO and journalist these days, from Silicon Valley to Davos. To those who started paying real attention to AI in 2022, it may seem that technologies like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion came out of nowhere to take the world by storm. Back in 2020, we wrote an article in this column predicting that generative AI would be one of the pillars of the next generation of artificial intelligence. Since at least the release of GPT-2 in 2019, it has been clear to those working in the field that generative language models were poised to unleash vast economic and societal transformation.