Okay so you’ve used ChatGPT, or Claude, or whatever chatbot your company just made you download. And at some point you’ve probably wondered…what IS this thing actually doing?? Is it thinking? Is it googling stuff behind the scenes? (Unless you’re using a search-enabled feature, nope!) Is there some giant database somewhere with every answer already written down? Nope. Let’s break this down. What is an LLM, really? A large language model predicts the next word. One word at a time. Based on patterns it picked up from a truly absurd amount of text. That’s it. That’s the whole trick!! Everything else you’ve seen it do — writing paragraphs, spitting out…