Computing professor: "AI is nothing more than a probability machine"
Dave Gadoo gave a plain-language explanation of how large language models are trained and how they generate outputs, using probability examples ("knock knock") and highlighting conversational context as a key difference from search engines.
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Dave Gadoo explained the mechanics of large language models, telling attendees that the systems examine vast corpora over months of training and then generate text by scoring likely continuations. "AI is nothing more than a probability machine and it's just looking at all the possibilities that could occur word for word," he said while illustrating the process with a "knock knock" example to show how models select probable next tokens.
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