Large language models (LLMs) are currently the craze. Who hasn't heard of ChatGPT that can deliver all kinds of responses to user prompts, be a recipe or suggestions for vacation or an essay on a topic for a term paper. It is all possible because of the underlying large language models. So what are large language models? How do these models work? What can we do with these models? Let's try to answer these questions without going into much technical details. What are Large Language Models? We will begin by first trying to understand what is a language model. Think about using your cell phone for messaging. As you enter text, your cell phone tries to guess the word you are typing, see the figure below. Under the hood, a language model is computing probabilities for the next character/word and is displaying the top three or five most probable characters/words. There are a few types of language models such as rule-based models, statistical language models, and the recurrent neura
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