The LLM App Analogy

Today, I’m going to present my favorite analogy on how LLM based applications really work. Generative AI can produce some amazing results and it is a constant source of confusion about how they really work.

Where are the answers coming from? What are the opportunities for improvement? Doesn’t the AI just “learn”?

I’m going to present 3 different scenarios posed as a real-world human interaction. These scenarios are ordered in terms of complexity and capability. In the future, I plan to create a deeper technical dive into each of these scenarios but today’s article will…