Lauren Goode: I wouldn’t get the first word.
Will Knight: It’s language model at the end, probably.
Michael Calore: Oh, yeah.
Lauren Goode: Will, just so you know, before this episode, we joked about calling this WILLM, which would be W-I-L-L-M, the Will learning large language model.
Will Knight: One day my language model will be able to come in my place and get it all right, because it can look it up. But I don’t know, pre-trained amazing language model.
Michael Calore: Nope.
Lauren Goode: Good guess. It’s Pathways Language Model.
Will Knight: Oh.
Lauren Goode: Mm-hmm.
Will Knight: OK.
Lauren Goode: Yep. Yes, we got him.
Michael Calore: So who does—
Will Knight: So this was the—
Lauren Goode: This was Google.
Will Knight: … precursor to ChatGPT, right? They built some pretty amazing chatbots on top of it, but never released them, I think.
Michael Calore: OK.
Will Knight: I think that’s right.
Michael Calore: Well, here’s another one with a lowercase in it. This one is LLaMA. L-L, lowercase A, capital M, capital A.
Will Knight: Mm, I don’t know this one either.
Lauren Goode: I think you do.
Will Knight: LLaMA.
Lauren Goode: Only because, I’m going to give you a hint, because I think you know the company behind it and that letter factors into this.
Will Knight: What some letters behind LLaMA?
Lauren Goode: Mm-hmm.
Will Knight: Two Ls, language … How does Meta? I don’t know. I have no idea.
Michael Calore: It’s Large Language Model Meta AI. LLaMA.
Will Knight: Makes perfect sense.
Michael Calore: Yeah, right? So there’s extra letters in there. It’s Large Language, lower case A, Model Meta AI, but there’s not two Ms, it’s just LLaMA, like the animal.
Will Knight: I should’ve at least got large language and made the rest up.
Lauren Goode: They really just shoe horned Meta in there.
Michael Calore: They did, yeah.
Lauren Goode: Yeah.
Will Knight: Because there was an alpaca, I think. I think they wanted to get something, I think, I might be hallucinating that.
Lauren Goode: Fitting.
Will Knight: Anyway.
Lauren Goode: The next one, which will be the last one, it’s a bit of a trick, because it’s not an acronym, but maybe you can describe where it comes from. DALL-E. D-A-L-L, dash, E.
Will Knight: Oh, I do know this. I might get this word wrong. Is it a portmanteau? Is that they way you say it?
Michael Calore: Yes, portmanteau.
Will Knight: It’s a portmanteau, sorry, of Salvador Dali and WALL-E.
Lauren Goode: Good job.
Michael Calore: Excellent.
Lauren Goode: Wow.
Will Knight: I just remember that, because every story had to explain that it was portmanteau or whatever that word is. And so, I was like, “I better learn that word,” which I haven’t done.
