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DIGITAL SKILLS & LITERACY
Thursday
30
November
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Sociotechnical history of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs): a primer

Florian Jaton
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Auditorium A2 - Maison de la paix, Geneva

A first event out of 2 which looks back at the recent social, technical and economic trajectory of GPTs (generative Pre-Trained Transformers).

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Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) are all the rage. Since the company OpenAI launched its ChatGPT service at the end of 2022, not a week goes by without a controversy surrounding GPT-based chatbots, now also proposed by Google (Bard), Meta (LLaMa), or Anthropic (Claude). But where does the GPT architecture, which forms the backbone of these large language models, come from? When, how, and by whom was it developed? And what are the continuities and ruptures that brought it about? This session will probe the sociotechnical roots of GPTs, to better grasp their strengths, but also their fragilities.

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