Connectionists: Non-technical Workshop on LLMs

[David H Kirshner]

I am an educator interested in the implications of LLMs for the teaching profession. I've studied the basics of ANNs to gain an understanding of how connectionist models simulate intelligent behavior adaptively, without a guiding mental model or rule system. But my exposure to ChatGPT leaves me baffled. If the output layer is focused on identifying the appropriate next word in a string of text, it shouldn't be able to perform nearly as effectively as it does.
Does anyone know of a workshop, seminar, or piece of writing that explains LLMs in a relatively non-technical way?
David Kirshner
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Mathematics Education
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