I can remember the days when indexing text meant compiling lists of pages on which a word appeared or finding pages in which "keywords" appeared in context. Then came full text search as exemplified by the Google search engine. Pages found in the World Wide Web are indexed word-by-word and the retrieved Web page references are rank ordered by an elaboration of the original "page rank" concept developed by the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Large language models (LLMs) represent a very different way of performing information retrieval. I am no expert in this field but my cartoon model of the LLM notion follows: A statistical model of the relationship of "tokens" (words or phrases) to each other (for example, likelihood of appearing "near" each other) is built.

Every day, we hear new stories of the changes that AI technology has brought to our lives. In the past 24 hours, Nasdaq posted an article about how AI is transforming healthcare. The Columbian Missourian talked about the changes that AI has brought to cancer treatment and muscle research. Many facets of the healthcare system are changing as a result of AI technology. Dental care is among them.

Homecoming, the latest series with prestige TV bona fides to come to Amazon, is about as subtle and mysterious as a thriller can get. Based on the podcast of same name, it is, on the surface, about a group of soldiers returned from combat and the facility--called Homecoming--that seeks to treat their PTSD. However, as seen in flash-forwards and tiny cracks in the veneer of each person's story, none of that is what it seems, and everyone's motives and actions are suspect. Where Is Hollywood Looking for Its Next Hit? Mr. Robot Is the Best Hacking Show Yet--But It's Not Perfect The 15 New Fall Shows We're Most Excited About If you know the work of Homecoming showrunner Sam Esmail, this comes as no surprise.