Aidan Gomez deserves recognition for his contribution to the success of ChatGPT, specifically for the 'T' at the end of its name. He was part of a team of Google engineers who introduced a revolutionary artificial intelligence model known as a transformer. This model laid the groundwork for the recent explosion of generative AI, which has been further advanced by OpenAI and other companies. At the time of Google's 2017 paper, Gomez was a 20-year-old intern, but now he serves as the CEO and co-founder of Cohere, a startup in Toronto that competes with other leading AI companies in providing large language models and chatbots for major corporations and organizations.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Gomez discussed the future of generative AI. The following is a condensed version of the conversation: