Why AI has taken a giant leap forward

Scroll through the linked article and enjoy the best explanation of why AI has taken a giant leap forward available on the internet.  I absolutely love the parallax visualizations helping bring home the concepts. 

My favorite quote:

“LLMs are not search engines looking up facts; they are pattern-spotting engines that guess the next best option in a sequence.” 

Generative AI exists because of the transformer

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