On this episode of Neutral, artificial intelligence is being developed so rapidly by the tech industry,

and AI is starting to affect millions of Americans who engage with it.

From college students using chat and GPT to write their papers,

to AI sampling human voices, to AI creating whole new search engines like Microsoft's new launch of Bing powered by AI.

There's so much happening, I wanted to devote a series of episodes to understanding artificial intelligence.

I'm really pleased to welcome my guest, Will Reinhart.

He is a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University.

Will, welcome and thank you for joining me on this world.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Can you briefly talk about what is artificial intelligence,

and how has it rapidly changed and developed over the past few years?

Yeah, artificial intelligence is a big, blanket term,

a big tent term for a whole bunch of related technological developments that really have come to fruition

and come into application in the last 10, 15 years.

Probably the most important things that we're talking about today,

as you even mentioned, is the suite of technologies really around,

it's called chat GPT, right?

These technologies are called large language models.

And these LLMs are really just big models that take really big data sets.

And in this case, it's literally the data of the entire web.

And then they put into a model and they use that model to do some learning,

to do some machine learning.

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