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One Byte Explainer: Large Language Models

This is a submission for DEV Computer Science Challenge v24.06.12: One Byte Explainer.

Explainer

LLMs communicate “like humans” by modeling our patterns. They’re limited: they only use patterns from training data. But: LLM training data is much larger than an average human’s memory. Like humans, when LLMs don’t know, they make stuff up (hallucinate).

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TEAM: @dchaley @lynnlangit

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