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Using AI with R

What is AI and What is it Good For?

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A good overview of how large language models work is the article The Surprising Power of Next Word Prediction: Large Language Models Explained, Part 1 by Matthew Burtell and Helen Toner.

The article titled Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb that I show in the video is another good overview.

Simon Willison's article It’s infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input does what it says on the tin.

If you want to go really in depth on using AI in R, the best place to go is Tom Mock's 2023 talk GitHub Copilot in Rstudio, it's finally here! You'll see me reference this video in later lessons as well.

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