{"id":20969,"date":"2025-12-10T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20969"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:55:33","slug":"llm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/llm\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Language Models (LLMs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Large Language Models (LLMs) Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A government working paper released recently suggested that AI large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT should, by default, have access to content freely available online, and that publishers should not have an opt-out mechanism for such content.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Large Language Models (LLMs)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An LLM is a <\/span><b>type of artificial intelligence (AI) program<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that can r<\/span><b>ecognize and generate text, among other tasks.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LLMs are <\/span><b>trained on huge sets of data<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014hence the name \u201clarge.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LLMs are <\/span><b>built on machine learning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: specifically, a <\/span><b>type of neural network <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">called a <\/span><b>transformer model<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">excels at<\/span><b> handling sequences of words<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span><b> capturing patterns in text.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In simpler terms, an <\/span><b>LLM is a computer program<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that has been <\/span><b>fed enough examples<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be able to <\/span><b>recognize and interpret human language or other types of complex data.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many LLMs are<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trained on<\/span><b> data<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that has been <\/span><b>gathered from the Internet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014thousands or millions of gigabytes\u2019 worth of text.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the <\/span><b>quality of the samples impacts how well LLMs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will <\/span><b>learn natural language<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so LLM&#8217;s programmers may use a more curated data set.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LLMs <\/span><b>use a type of machine learning called deep learning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in order to <\/span><b>understand how characters, words, and sentences function together.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Deep learning <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">involves the <\/span><b>probabilistic analysis of unstructured data<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which eventually enables the deep learning model to<\/span><b> recognize distinctions between pieces of content without human intervention.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>LLMs <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are then<\/span><b> further trained via tuning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: they are fine-tuned or prompt-tuned to the particular task that the programmer wants them to do.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>What are LLMs Used For?<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LLMs can perform various language tasks, such as <\/span><b>answering questions, summarizing text, translating between languages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>writing content.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Businesses use <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LLM-based applications to help <\/span><b>improve employee productivity <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and efficiency, <\/span><b>provide personalized recommendations to customers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>accelerate ideation, innovation,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and product development.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LLMs serve as the <\/span><b>foundational powerhouses behind<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> some of today\u2019s most used <\/span><b>text-focused generative AI (GenAI) tools, such as ChatGPT,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Claude, <\/span><b>Microsoft Copilot, Gemini,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Meta AI.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since LLMs are <\/span><b>now becoming multimodal (working with media types beyond text),<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> they are now <\/span><b>also called \u201cfoundation models\u201d.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though they are groundbreaking, LLMs face <\/span><b>challenges <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that may include<\/span><b> computational requirements, ethical concerns<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>limitations in understanding context.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Quick Definitions<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Machine learning:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A <\/span><b>subset of <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where <\/span><b>data is fed into a program <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so it can i<\/span><b>dentify features in that data.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Deep learning: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trains itself to<\/span><b> recognize patterns without human intervention.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Neural networks: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Constructed of <\/span><b>connected network nodes <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">composed of several layers that <\/span><b>pass information between each other.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Transformer models: Learn context <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">using a <\/span><b>technique called self-attention to detect how elements in a sequence are related.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/dpiit-committee-on-ai-and-copyright-suggests-compromise-position-on-data-mining\/article70375452.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Large Language Model (LLM) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) program that can recognize and generate text, among other tasks. 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