Faculty at Home: A Critical Citizen's Guide to ChatGPT

Phil Chodrow, assistant professor of computer science will examine large language models (LLMs) power modern chatbots and text generators. How do they work and what do they mean for human society? We’ll begin by describing next-token-prediction and reinforcement learning with human feedback, the two technical tasks that underlie contemporary LLMs. The full description of this talk can be found right here.