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Thanks. What is an LLM?
Basically, think ChatGPT
Large language models (LLM) are the product of neural networks, a relatively recent innovation in the field of computer intelligence.
Since these systems are surprisingly adept at producing natural sounding language, and is good at create answers that sound correct (and sometimes actually happen to be) marketers have seized on this as an innovation, called it AI (a term with a complicated history), and have started slapping it onto every product.
Neural networks have been around for quite some time. The simplest forms of it have actually existed since around 1795.
Ahhhhhh... that's a really simple explanation thanks
A machine learning model that can generate text.
It works by converting pieces of text to "tokens" which are mapped to numbers in a way that reflects their association with other pieces of text. The model is fed input tokens and predicts tokens based on that, which are then converted to text.
Large Language Model
To the extent of my understanding, it is a form of slightly more sophisticated bot, as in an automated response algorithm, that is developed over a set of data, in order to have it "understand" the mechanics that make such set cohesive to us humans.
With such background, it is supposed to produce new similar outputs if given new raw data sets to run through the mechanics it acquired during development.
Clever, thanks 😊