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Day 2/42: What is an LLM?

Yesterday, we zoomed out and defined Generative AI.

Today, we zoom in on the star of the show: LLMs.

An LLM isn’t a brain. It’s not a database.

It’s a very powerful autocomplete system.

At every step, it asks one question only:

“Given everything so far, what’s the most likely next token?”

That’s it. One token at a time. Again and again.

No understanding. No intent. Just probability stacked thousands of times until it looks like intelligence.

Once you really get this, a lot of weird behavior suddenly makes sense:

why answers drift, why wording matters, why confidence doesn’t equal correctness.

Missed Day 1? Start there.

Tomorrow, we open the hood and talk about the first hidden building block: tokens.

I’m Louis-François, PhD dropout, now CTO & co-founder at Towards AI. Follow me for tomorrow’s no-BS AI roundup 🚀

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