AI chat bots like Chat GPT and its cousins have taken the world by storm in 2023. To a casual user, large language models are creating increasingly human-like responses - and yet this does not represent the reality of what is going on under the hood. In this video we are going to explore what Chat GPT and other like it are actually doing, what the future may looks like for these programs and ask whether it is fair to call them artificial intelligences at all?

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