Generative AI at Work / Unit 1 GAI 004 short lesson, about 20 seconds
How It Writes: A Pointer
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The idea
Language models generate text by predicting the next word, or piece of a word, again and again, following the statistical patterns of their training data.
In practice
The Artificial Intelligence course on StudyWalks teaches the mechanics: the next-word task, the transformer and pretraining.
Where people slip
The consequence that matters at work: a statistically likely sentence is not necessarily a true one.
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