Understand ChatGPT in 20 minutes
From "what is it?" to why it sometimes makes things up. · ~20 minutes
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): Computers doing things that normally need a human brain, like understanding words or recognising faces.
- Large Language Model (LLM): An AI trained on huge amounts of text that writes by predicting the next word, over and over.
- Token: The bite-sized pieces of text an AI reads and writes: often a word, sometimes part of a word.
- Context Window: How much text an AI can "see" at once: its short-term memory.
- Temperature: A setting for how adventurous or predictable the AI's word choices are.
- Hallucination: When AI confidently says something that sounds right but is made up.
- Prompt: What you type to ask the AI to do something.