"What is all this AI and LLM stuff really?!"

Some of the brightest people in our community don't seem really to grasp the essentials of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs). Part of it is the hype, which is historic, obscuring the facts. Another part is fear. Let's lay this to rest and look at what really is happening.

Jack Woehr

Senior Engineer, Absolute Performance, Inc.

Jack is a consulting programmer with over 30 years' experience in open source. He authors Ublu, an open source remote language for IBM i. He specializes in open source modernization on IBM i. He is currently experimenting with connecting IBM i to IBM Q quantum computing via the open source Qiskit.