Large Language Models (LLMs) - what are they & why do we care

What are LLMs?

LLMs are a type of artificial intelligence algorithm that uses very deep learning models that are trained on vast amounts of data. The LLM is trained and extracts meanings from a sequence of text to understand the relationships between words and phrases in it.

LLMs are flexible and can be trained to perform tasks such as answering questions, summarizing documents, translating languages and completing sentences. LLMs have the potential to disrupt content creation and the way people use search engines and virtual assistants. The human language prompts the LLM.

How do LLMs Work?

LLMs represent words. Language is at the core of all forms of human and technological communications. LLMs are fed words with similar contextual meanings or other relationships that are close to each other in the vector space. Training an LLM is performed by using a large corpus of high-quality data. The model continues to adjusts parameter values until the model correctly predicts the next token from the previous sequence of input tokens. The LLM does this through self-learning techniques which teach the model to adjust parameters to maximize the likelihood of the next tokens in the training examples. Once trained, LLMs can adapt to perform multiple tasks using relatively small sets of supervised data, this is referred to as fine tuning.

Why do LLMs matter we have ChatGBT

LLMs are becoming popular because they have broad applicability for a range of tasks. Including:

  • Text generation

  • Translation

  • Content summary

  • Rewriting content

  • Sentiment analysis

  • Conversational AI and chatbots

The Future of LLMs

LLMs are based on how they are formed and will continuously improve to get “smarter.” The ability to translate content across different contexts will grow and make LLMs more usable by business users with different levels of technical expertise.