What an LLM Actually Is (and Isn't)

<h1> How LLMs Work: A Journey Through Tokens, Attention, and Transformers </h1> <p>“My favourite rock band is…”</p> <p>How does a large language model take that unfinished

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<h1> How Many R's in Strawberry? Your AI Has No Idea Why That's Hard </h1> <p>How many R's are in the word "strawberry"?</p> <p>If you ask ChatGPT, there's a decent chance you'll

<p>NLP models cannot process words directly, which is why tokenization[1] exists. Tokenization ends with a list of integers — token IDs like <code>[30642, 1634, 318, ...]</code>.