What is an LLM (large language model)?
An LLM is a kind of AI trained on huge amounts of text. It writes by predicting the next word, again and again.
In real life
Like your phone's next-word suggestions, but trained on a library's worth of text, so it can keep going for whole pages.
Try it yourself
The text so far
The cat sat on the
Most likely next words
- Every other word: 3%
A large model has learned from more text, so it's more confident about sensible words. It still picks with a little randomness, so the same start can end differently.
Where you will use this
- Track 1, lesson 1: Your first useful chatComing soon
- Track 1, lesson 8: Checking AI answersComing soon
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