Ask HN: What resources to explain LLMs to non-technical professionals?

3 begemotz 2 5/3/2025, 1:57:45 PM

I am trying to curate a list of high-quality but relatively brief materials that can give non-technical, but educated, professionals a firm conceptual understanding of the current state of generative AI.

Materials can be written or video.

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begemotz · 16h ago

For future me, I will add:

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

and one of the discussions of that article on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34796611

f_allwein · 16h ago

The economist had some good articles, including this one: https://www.economist.com/interactive/science-and-technology...

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