Introduction to Large Language Models

And the metaphors we use to describe them

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The Duck flew away

Duck or you’ll get hit

That duck saved my life

Summary

  • LLMs are statistical models
  • Trained on large amounts of text
  • To learn a general understanding of language
  • They can be fine tuned for tasks like machine translation

  • Or text generation and chat with human feedback

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