The AI Pocket Book

1 How AI works

This chapter covers

• The way LLMs process inputs and generate outputs
• The transformer architecture that powers LLMs
• Different types of machine learning
• How LLMs and other AI models learn from data
• How convolutional neural networks are used to process different types of media with AI
• Combining different types of data (e.g., producing images from text)

This chapter clarifies how AI works, discussing many foundational AI topics. Since the latest AI boom, many of these topics (e.g., “embeddings” and “temperature”) are now widely discussed, not just by AI practitioners but also by businesspeople and the general public. This chapter demystifies them.

Instead of just piling up definitions and writing textbook explanations, this ...