GPT-like LLMs are built on the principles of next-word prediction. However, the secret sauce that makes ChatGPT, Llama, Falcon & friends so useful is their ability to go beyond simple autocomplete tasks and model higher-order processes. This talk will take a look at how this is accomplished, and how LLMs can power tool-using dialogue agents that automate a wide variety of knowledge-bound tasks.

Rensselaer's School of Architecture continues its Fall 2023 lecture series at noon on November 9 with the virtual lecture “Web(s) of Life” by Tomás Saraceno, an Argentina-born, Berlin-based artist whose projects have initiated dialogues with various forms of life and life-forming processes and who has spent over two decades engaged in rethinking prevailing threads of knowledge within the context of the Capitalocene era.