IET France Events

The talk provides an in-depth look at the electrification of the East Coast Main Line, where the speaker served as Electrification Construction Engineer at Newcastle for the section of line between Northallerton and the Scottish Border. The talk offers some fascinating and humorous insights into how the line was electrified and maintained, using engineering principles and experience to achieve the most cost-effective and efficient outcomes for the operational railway.

LLMs have demonstrated amazing abilities, but how do they work? And how does that compare to human abilities? This talk will explain how LLMs are constructed and what that tells us about whether and how they think. We'll discuss how simply learning to fit a model to a huge dataset of text results in something that looks intelligent and try to understand what lies behind that appearance.