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Christopher S. Penn on What's True and What's False About ChatGPT

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work & Life

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What are Large Language Models and Their Main Tasks?

Large language models are software that operate as huge databases of probabilities. They perform four main tasks: generation, summarization, rewriting, and transformation. In generation, they can produce text based on a given prompt. Summarization involves condensing a large text into a shorter version. Rewriting means altering the original text. Transformation involves converting one type of text into another. These models excel in generation, summarization, rewriting, and transformation. They are particularly good at transforming one thing into another due to their design as transformers. However, when starting with simple prompts, the initial output may be basic and elementary.

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