SMRTR AIMar 28, 2025Daily.dev

How To Generate ‘AI’ From a Database: Bruce Momjian

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Generative AI, like ChatGPT, uses vector processing and state transformers to create content. The technology relies on massive word vectors and training data to understand relationships between words. Bruce Momjian explained at FOSDEM 2025 how this process works, using database technology as a starting point. While AI is evolving rapidly, Momjian emphasized that large language models are sophisticated data manipulation tools, not truly intelligent or sentient systems.

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