Cravath Publishes “Tech Explainer” on the Self‑Attention Mechanism Underlying ChatGPT

In February 2024, Cravath continued its “Tech Explainers” series, which introduces and explains technical, cutting‑edge concepts and describes their importance in a way that is accessible to and easily understood by business and legal professionals outside the technical community.

The fourth installment in the series examines how generative AI models such as ChatGPT use self‑attention to produce a mathematical representation of context to generate new text. The article explores how the self‑attention mechanism works, at a technical level, and its legal implications.

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