Introduction to LLMs
ChatGPT is an LLM. LLMs can be used to answer questions and generate emails, marketing materials, blogs, video scripts, code, and even books that look a lot like they’ve been written by humans. However, you probably want to know about the technology.
Let’s start with what an LLM is.
LLMs are deep learning models, specifically, transformer networks or just “transformers.” Transformers certainly have transformed our culture!
An LLM is trained on huge amounts of text data, petabytes (thousands of terabytes) of data, and predicts the next word or words. Due to the way LLMs operate, they are not perfect at outputting text; they can give alternative facts, facts that are “hallucinated.”
ChatGPT is, as of the time of writing, the most popular and famous LLM, created and managed by OpenAI. OpenAI is a charity and a capped-profit organization based in San Francisco [OpenAI_LP, OpenAIStructure].
ChatGPT is now widely...
