Generative AI with Python

1.6    Large Language Models

We’ll work a lot with LLMs in this book, and a complete chapter will deal with this topic. So, we’ll keep it short and concise because we’ll dive much deeper into this fascinating topic in Chapter 3.

LLMs are advanced ML models trained on vast amounts of text data to understand, generate, and interact with human language. They leverage architectures like transformers to process and produce contextually coherent and semantically meaningful text, enabling applications such as chatbots, content generation, and question answering.

In the following sections, we’ll first describe the different steps of the training process for an LLM. Then, we’ll highlight some use cases before looking at some of the problems associated ...