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Concepts

The books it read and the patterns it kept, and how they become a way with words.

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• TRACK 06Large Language ModelYou probably picture a giant dictionary inside it: ask a question, it turns to the page and reads the answer out. Wrong — it has not stored a single page. What it learned is how to chain words, one at a time, guessing its way to a whole sentence the way you play a word-chain game. This episode has one job: explain what a large language model actually is, and how it manages to talk at all.1:56