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Comment by visarga

Psst ... why don't you spend 30 minutes of quality time with chatGPT and get to the bottom of this? Get those personalised explanations and enjoy its unlimited patience.

I have felt the same in the past, related to a completely different topic. I know how it feels, it's like people are not saying things what they are, just using weird words.

"weights" - synapses in the AI brain

"tokens" - word fragments

"model" - of course, the model is the AI brain

"context" - the model can only handle a piece of text, can't put whole books in, so this limited window is the context

"GPT" - predicts the next word, trained on everything; if you feed its last predicted word back in, it can write long texts

"LoRA" - a lightweight plug-in model for tweaking the big model

"loss" - a score telling how bad is the output

"training" - change the model until it fits the data

"quantisation" - making a low precision version of the model because it still works, but now is much faster and needs less compute

"embedding" - just a vector, it stands for the meaning of a word token or a piece of image; these embeddings are learned

parent visarga 3 years ago

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