The LLM Paradigm Shift: From Determinism to General Intelligence

Please join us for the Orange County ACM Chapter's bimonthly evening program series.

The LLM Paradigm Shift: From Determinism to General Intelligence

**Agenda**

6:30 PM Doors Open & Networking

7:00 PM Announcements, Presentation, and Q&A

8:30 PM Meeting Adjourns

**Event Details**

The path to modern artificial intelligence is defined by a fundamental shift from hand-coded logic to large-scale emergent systems. This talk surveys that journey, beginning with a brief look at early deterministic AI from the 1950s through the 1980s: rule-based engines, expert systems, and symbolic logic. The focus shifts to deep learning in the early to mid-2010s, tracing how word vectors turned language into math, followed by recurrent neural networks and sequence-to-sequence models for language tasks.

The defining pair of breakthroughs that unlocked modern AI arrived with the 2017 Transformer architecture and the late-2022 release of Chat

GPT. We explore how Transformers introduced self-attention to pro