Welcome to the finale of AI for Mortals’ three-part introduction to the new AI — generative AI — which burst into public awareness in early 2023 with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. As in Parts 1 and 2, we’re still confining ourselves to an exploration of what the new AI

This post picks up where What Is the New AI? Part 1: From the Outside left off. That article introduced AI for Mortals and its purpose: to give regular, non-technical people the tools to think about the new (generative) AI for themselves. It reviewed the way ChatGPT and similar programs

Here it is, the first installment of AI for Mortals. Thank you to everyone who signed up, which was a lot more people than I expected. It’s humbling — I’ll try my best to make this a useful thing, and I hope you’ll let me know when I