The Machine and Me

On ChatGPT--and what we think about when we think about thinking

I was introduced to the world of large language models (LLMs) at an outdoor bar in Florida, by a very smart man who looked and sounded suspiciously like the actor, Bradley Whitford. It was the evening after a work event to which the president of our company had brought an old friend who was doing interesting work in the soon-to-be-exploding field of gen…