I'm not in this field but have recently found myself going on the deepest dive possible into it as my small brain can absorb.

I now know about (on a surface level) neural networks, transformers, attention mechanisms, vectors, maticies, tokenization, loss functions and all sorts of other crazy stuff.

I come out of this realizing that there are some incredibly brilliant minds behind this. I knew AI was a complex subject but not on the level I've learned about now. To get what is essentially matrix multiplications to learn complex patterns and relationships in language is mind-blowing.

And it's creative. It can have a rap battle with an alter-ego, host a quiz party with other AIs of varying personalities, co-author a short story with me, respond to me only in emojis. The list is seemingly endless. Oh, and it can also do useful things. It's my programming companion too.

And we're just getting started.