The classroom·What a language model is·Why it guesses the next word
Autocomplete, taken seriously.
On the call, we would ask
- What is the longest thing you would want it to write in one go?
- Does the work need one right answer, or one good draft?
- Who reads the output before anyone outside does?
- What would a wrong word cost in the place you want to use it?
In this unit: What a language model is
- Why it guesses the next word
- Why it sounds so sure
- What it cannot know
- Reasoning models, plainly