Generative AI

What is a large language model?

A large language model, or LLM, is a model trained on language-related data at scale to predict or generate sequences of tokens.

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Before you dive in: outcomes & prerequisites

No AI experience required. Start with the simple explanation.

A beginner learning path: understand the idea, follow an everyday example and check your understanding. Read the three lessons in order.

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03 · Practise and check

Your turn

Write one task that uses information entirely inside your prompt and one that needs an external source.

Answer check

Summarising supplied notes can rely on the notes. Reporting a live train delay needs a current source. Whether an assistant can fetch that source depends on its available tools.

Explain it to a friend

Give a second example from college, a hobby or a fictional workplace. State what information goes in, what comes out and one limitation. If you can explain those three things in plain language, you are ready to move on. Mark this lesson as read to save your progress when signed in.

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