Understand ChatGPT Better Than 99% of People
Last Updated on February 28, 2024 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Boris Meinardus
Originally published on Towards AI.
Everyone knows ChatGPT, but do you know how it works?
You perhaps know it predicts one word at a time. But do you know how it chooses the right word? Because itβs probably not how you think! To change that, in this blog, Iβll walk you through some basics of ChatGPT all the way up to how the new custom GPTs work so that you will understand ChatGPT, and pretty much all other LLMs better than 99% of people.
Oh, and by the way, stick around, because you will get the chance to win a sick NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super GPU!!
Letβs get started!
Okay, what is the goal of ChatGPT?
Well, the goal is to generate text that makes sense. How do we achieve thatWell, just like us humans, we write one word at a time.
We write
βTheβ βcatβ βchasedβ βtheβ β¦
And, you have probably already filled in the blank with the word βmouseβ.
But how does the model, ChatGPT, understand these words?
ChatGPT needs to understand what has been written so far to have the context of the current conversation but also have an understanding of grammar and the general world to know what to write next.
Letβs first focus on the main mechanism of how the model can understand the words we or it have… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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