News Summary

• ChatGPT was introduced last fall it sent shockwaves through the technology industry and the larger world
• Machine learning researchers had been experimenting with large language models LLMs for a few years by that point but the general public had not been paying close attention
• Today almost everyone has heard about LLMs and tens of millions of people have tried them out
• But not very many people understand how they work
• We ll aim to explain what s known about the inner workings of these models without resorting to technical jargon or advanced math