AI in Your Life
Talking to AI 101
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What's on the other side of the chat box
When you type to ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, you're talking to a large language model (LLM) — a system trained on a massive slice of the internet's text to do one thing: predict what text should come next.
The chat interface makes it feel like a person. Underneath, it's a prediction engine that's very, very good at producing the shape of a helpful answer.
analogy
An LLM is like an actor who's memorized every script ever written. Ask it anything and it improvises the most believable scene — but it isn't consulting a fact file, it's performing plausibility.