You've probably heard about AI’s large language models. But what is a “small language model” and why might this fine-tuned version of artificial intelligence work better in K12?

In the latest episode of District Administration‘s “Talking Out of School” podcast, Merlyn Mind’s Levi Belnap fills listeners in on the emerging technology. The more well-known large language model, such as ChatGPT, is “what makes a computer able to understand our human language in ways that, previously, would have been shocking,” Belnap says.

“Its most current versions is, you take all the world’s information, you stick it in there and now [your computer] can kind of understand anything you say, and it can respond in ways that seem really coherent,” he adds. “It’s like, ‘Oh, my gosh! The computer understands me.'”