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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals, which involves consciousness and emotionality. The distinction between the former and the latter categories is often revealed by the acronym chosen.

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Do I understand LLMs? (lemmy.world)

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Basically, it's a calculator that can take letters, numbers, words, sentences, and so on as input.

And produce a mathematically "correct" sounding output, defined by language patterns in the training data.

This core concept is in most if not all "AI" models, not just LLMs, I think.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Pretty much.

But it only takes words as input. Numbers are just another type of word. Sentences are just a series of words with a "." word on the end.

This is why when you get a LLM to do basic math it fails so often - it has no concept of a number or operations on those numbers.