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Large language model

The basics, also called LLM, one of the 17 words to learn first

An AI trained on enormous amounts of text so it can read and write like a person. It works by predicting which words should come next.

Think of it as: Predictive text on your phone, scaled up millions of times.

More words in The basics

• Machine learningTeaching computers by showing them lots of examples rather than writing out every rule by hand.
• ModelThe trained brain of an AI system. It's the result of all the learning and the thing that produces answers.
• MultimodalAn AI that handles more than one kind of input or output, such as text, images, audio and video, not just words.
• Narrow AIAI built for one job, such as filtering spam or recommending films. Every AI in use today is narrow to some degree.
• Natural language processingThe field of getting computers to understand and produce human language.