How ChatGPT Works | Understanding AI: From Beginner to Competent User

In this lesson you will learn

- Explain what tokens are and how ChatGPT converts text into numbers - Describe next-token prediction and why it produces coherent text - Use the temperature parameter consciously (creative vs. precise output) - Understand the context window and manage it effectively in practice *Duration: ~18 min*

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You type "Explain quantum physics to me" and get a perfect answer. In two seconds.

But what actually happens in those two seconds? How does a machine turn your words into a coherent response? The answer is simpler, and stranger, than you think.

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