Understanding Large Language Models: Learning Their Underlying Concepts and Technologies

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T. AmaratungaUnderstanding Large Language Modelshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0017-7_1

1. Introduction

Thimira Amaratunga¹  

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Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

 

It was late 2022. Reports were coming in about a new AI that had human-like conversational skills and seemingly infinite knowledge. Not only was it able to articulate answers to a large number of subject domains such as science, technology, history, and philosophy, it was able to elaborate on the answers it gave and perform meaningful follow-up conversations about them.

This was ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) chatbot developed by OpenAI. ChatGPT has been trained on a massive dataset of both text and ...