Thanks to John Naughton’s Guardian column (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/07/chatgpt-bot-excel-ai-chatbot-tech) I picked up this illuminating paper – a clear and confident perspective on how LLMs like GPT work (“next token predictors”!).
Download here: Murray Shanahan, 2022, ‘Talking about Large Language Models’, https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03551