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What is an LLM?

How an AI model writes: one word at a time, by predicting what comes next. Why it can sound sure and still be wrong. In the tracker, it writes our first function.

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What this episode covers

  1. Guess what comes next
  2. Tokens, not words
  3. A list of probabilities, then a pick
  4. The generation loop
  5. Inside the box, and where its numbers come from
  6. What the model can see
  7. Plausible is not the same as true
  8. It is only text