The World of Artificial Intelligence - What Are Large Language Models?

In our very first episode two years ago, which was entitled, Cryptocurrency,, The Seventh Layer, we suggested that cryptocurrency might very well be a seventh, major technological event going back over the past 40 to 45 years, starting with centralized computing architectures. In that first podcast, we hinted that an eighth layer was in hiding, unknown at that time to most of us. We are now convinced that this 8th layer is now quite clearly in our midst, arriving with a bang in the past 6 months.Both economic and technological segments of our society are under cyclonic pressures, due to the rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) components.