What if I told you we're not alone?

Because we're really not alone anymore.

Ten years ago, the only beings you could talk with, no matter how far you travelled and how hard you tried were humans.

Perrots could repeat us, and electronic toys could exclaim one or two rehearsed sentences,

but humans were the only known things in the wide universe with which

we could have a real conversation. That's no longer the truth.

Since 2001, a new form of communication has slowly revealed itself.

Language models.

These are elaborate algorithms that can translate written language into mathematical terms

and then produce new words and sentences based on a given entry.

These language models are everywhere today.

They run in the background of Google Translate and other translation tools

helping us decipher foreign languages.

They help operate voice assistants like Alexa or Siri.

And most interestingly, they are available via several experimental projects trying to emulate natural conversations.

From open AI's GPT3 to Google's Lambda, these advanced language models made waves across the world when excerpts of their

conversations were widely publicized. People were stunned to realize that language models can participate in complicated

meaningful conversations. The moment these language models became

known to the general public people people started asking all the philosophical existential questions.

Are these models intelligent? Will they replace us?

Important questions, no doubt, but our episode today deals with a different set of questions.

Could these models get hacked?

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