What is Pre-Trained Language Models (PLMs)

One of the themes in the emergence of text- and image-making (multimodal) generative AIs is their value in the learning space, with the vast potential just beginning to be explored by mass humanity. This chapter explores the potential and early use of large language models (LLMs) harnessed for their mass learning, human-friendly conversations, and their efficacies, for self-learning for individuals and groups, based on a review of the literature, system constraints and affordances, and abductive logic. There are insights shared about longitudinal and lifelong learning and foci on co-evolving processes between the human learner and the computing machines and large language models.