Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland

2:00 am

Professor Alan Smeaton:

One of the things that large language models do is to take a huge volume of language and build a virtual, synthetic or artificial representation of the content. When you interact with them, you get that back. As we have seen with most of the language models, you can get it back in the style of, say, Seamus Heaney’s poetry, "The Simpsons" or whatever. The language that is used to deliver the output from this is independent of the language used, by which I mean dialect, accent and all the other things the Senator mentioned.