I started writing this post in early 2024. I decided against publishing it then because, frankly, I didn't have enough direct experience with Large Language Models. Anyhow, I am keeping my old draft intact and will comment below, as a growth exercise. The original title of this post was "Large Language Models and AI".

One of the big benefits to come out of the trending topic of "AI" this past year has been the proliferation of free and open source solutions surrounding audio, image, and text processing. I will be the first to admit that this is an exciting time for computing. I remember early attempts at an "AI" 15 years ago and it was largely chat bots who parroted your question back in a new way or repeated comments from prior chat sessions with other users.

Today's Large Language Models or LLMs are much more sophisticated, making it possible to have...