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AI, LLMs, and Copilot explained

AI, LLMs, and Copilot explained

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AI, LLMs, and Copilot explained

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It's my belief that there's a lot of confusion around the term AI, especially with all the buzz and hype we're seeing in the tech world right now. Let's clarify what AI actually means before seeing it in action. In this section, we'll focus on machine learning and large language models, two concepts that power most of the buzz. By grounding ourselves here, we'll cut through the hype and build a solid framework to understand the rest of this course. Much of today's excitement, and funding, and press coverage centers around one branch of AI, large language models, which drive generative workflows. Understanding LLMs helps us see why chatbots, code assistants, and creative tools have exploded onto the scene. LLMs are a type of machine learning model. The key feature of any machine learning model is that it discovers patterns from data rather than being explicitly programmed. These models can be trained on all sorts of data, images, audio, tabular data, and text. Training data comes from…

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