The classroom·What a language model is·Why it sounds so sure
Fluent is not the same as right.
On the call, we would ask
- Where in your business does a confident wrong answer travel furthest before it is caught?
- Who on the team is most likely to take a fluent answer at face value?
- Can the tool be asked to show where it got something?
- What would you want it to say when it does not know?
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