Humans Are the Original LLMs
Understanding Large Language Models Through a Human Lens Before machines learned to speak, humans did . Long before “Large Language Models” (LLMs) entered the world of Artificial Intelligence, human beings were already doing something remarkably similar—listening, learning from patterns, remembering, reasoning, and responding with language. In many ways, humans are the original LLMs . What Is an LLM, in Simple Terms? A Large Language Model (LLM) is an AI system trained on massive amounts of text—books, articles, conversations, code—so it can: Understand language Predict the next word in a sentence Answer questions Summarize ideas Generate new content It does not think like a human. It recognizes patterns and responds based on probabilities. If you say: “The sun rises in the…” An LLM predicts: “east” Not because it watched the sunrise—but because it has seen this pattern thousands of times . How LLMs Actually Operate At a high level, LLMs work like this: Input – You give a prompt (a...
