Silicon Republic February 28, 2024
University of Limerick’s Dr Mairtín Cunneen examines the opportunities emerging from AI and the potential of immersive and virtual worlds.
The year 2023 will probably be famous as the time when AI became a global and social phenomenon. Mostly, because billions of people around the world from all areas of life, ages and backgrounds are now actively engaging, communicating and talking with AI. For many users, the engagement may feel like a conversation with another human-like intelligent being with agency and personality.
Behind the appearance of sophisticated human-like intelligence, there are countless graphics processing unit (GPU) servers housed across thousands of data centres enabling the functionality of large language models (LLMs) which learn and replicate patterns in human language use...