Seminar: Manel Martínez-Ramón

February 7, 2025

How does ChatGPT work?

Manel Martínez-Ramón, UNM

3:00 pm, UNM Centennial Engineering Center, Room 1026
Online Guests: Contact Prof. Osiński <osinski@chtm.unm.edu> for a Zoom link

Abstract: Artificial intelligence is everywhere now and it is transforming our lives in many ways and, in particular, in our ways to communicate, learn, and work.

Large Language Models as ChatGPT, Gemini, Llama, or DeepSeek, are the most widely used ones and the ones that capitalize all the attention and social impact due to their power to generate content from queries. Their technology is based on attention mechanisms and transformers and they can be thought as monstruous neural networks trained with massive amounts of data to acquire the necessary knowledge to generate that content.

In this seminar we will review the main elements and the mechanisms that make these large language models work.

Bio: Dr. Manel Martínez-Ramón (Ph.D. in Telecommunications Technologies from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, 1999) is a Professor in the ECE Department at UNM. He holds the King Felipe VI Endowed Chair, sponsored by the household of the King of Spain. He joined the UNM ECE Department in 2013 as a full professor. His research activities include applications of machine learning to smart antennas, smart grid, photovoltaics, particle accelerators, and others. He is a co-author of the books Digital Signal Processing with Kernels (IEEE Press/Wiley, 2018), Machine Learning Applications in Electromagnetics and Antenna Array Processing (Artech House, 2021) and Deep Learning, a Practical Introduction (Wiley, 2024)