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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bacheler, super computers, ultra computers, good

computer. I learned from Ludwig Siegler, the European Business Editor, former US Technology

Editor, that a company Graphcore is building a good computer, not for the fact that it's

better than other computers, but it's name for a man Jack Good, who in 1965 speculated

that we would have ultra intelligence in our computers. Well, the good computer aims

to be that vision going from the four-year-old model of 110 parameters to the building 500

trillion parameters. What is a parameter? I welcome Ludwig to help me understand the world

of man and machine because this journey is going to take us into a machine that very

much appears to be creative. Ludwig, a very good evening to you. This is wonderful. What

is a parameter that we would go from 110 in a computer and bragging about it as artificial

intelligence to 500 trillion and we're still hungry? What can it do now that it couldn't

do then? Good evening to you. Good evening, and thanks for having me. A very good question.

What's a parameter? A parameter is, I mean, to sort of it's a number, of course, and it's

a probability. So these foundation models, these big AI's, these big computers, these

good computers we're talking about, basically, at least the software is a bunch of numbers,

millions of numbers, and now trillions of numbers. These numbers represent probabilities.

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