Humans and AI Will Understand Each Other Better Than Ever
WiredArtificial intelligence has promised much, but there has been something holding it back from being used successfully by billions of people: a frustrating struggle for humans and machines to understand one another in natural language. This is now changing, thanks to the arrival of large language models powered by transformer architectures, one of the most important AI breakthroughs in the past 20 years. These new models have delivered significant improvements to applications using natural language like language translation, summarization, information retrieval, and, most important, text generation. Models have been growing by almost an order of magnitude every year for the past five years, so it’s no surprise that the results have been impressive.