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What Is an LLM, Really?

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You use AI to write code every day. So what is the large language model (LLM) on the other end, really? The short answer: it's a program that keeps adding the next word. It reads the text so far, works out what is most likely to come next, adds it, and then does it again. That's the whole job, and…

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