Christina Theodoris and her colleagues at Gladstone Institutes, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute trained a computer model to understand how genes interact. Photo: Michael Short/Gladstone Institutes
Artificial Intelligence System Predicts Consequences of Gene Modifications
Large language models, also known as foundation models, are AI systems that learn fundamental knowledge from massive amounts of general data, and then apply that knowledge to accomplish new tasks—a process called transfer learning. These systems have recently gained mainstream attention with the release of ChatGPT, a chatbot built on a model from OpenAI.