Explaining the “T” Behind ChatGPT

The letter 'T' in ChatGPT represents Transformer, which serves as a fundamental building block for GPT and various other large language models. At its core, the Transformer mechanism aims to emulate the way humans process language by selectively focusing on different parts of a sentence and their relationships to the other parts.

Professor Jiaming Xu hosted a discussion and Q&A of the architecture underpinning the current wave of AI and discussed some of its possible business applications.