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How LLMs Work

A simple, non-technical explanation of Large Language Models like ChatGPT. How do they actually 'think'?

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Tokens: The Language of AI

Computers don't read words like we do. They break text into little chunks called Tokens.

  • "Apple" might be one token.
  • "Ingenious" might be split into "In", "gen", "ious".

The AI processes these tokens as numbers. It's basically doing complex math to figure out which number comes next in the sequence.

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