From Large Language Models to Generative AI Systems

How is it possible, my curious reader, that we can share our thoughts? How can it be that we discuss generative modeling, probability theory, or other interesting concepts? How come? The answer is simple: language. We communicate because the human species developed a pretty distinctive trait that allows us to formulate sounds in a very complex manner to express our ideas and experiences. At some point in our history, some people realized that we forget, we lie, and we can shout as strongly as we can, but we will not be understood farther than a few hundred meters. The solution was a huge breakthrough: writing. This whole mumbling on my side here could be summarized using one word: text. We know how to write (and read), and we can use the word text to mean language or natural language to avoid any confusion with artificial languages like Python or formal language.