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Text Generation

Definition

The use of Large Language Models to autonomously write coherent, contextually relevant text based on a user's prompt.

Explain Like I'm New

The AI predicting the next word over and over again until it completes a paragraph.

Real World Example

Using GitHub Copilot to automatically generate an entire Python function based solely on a comment you wrote.

Common Use Cases

  • •Copywriting
  • •Chatbots
  • •Translation

Interview Questions

basic

  • What technology powers modern text generation?

intermediate

  • Does an LLM generate text an entire paragraph at a time, or word by word?

Flash Cards

Question

What technology?

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Answer

Large Language Models (LLMs) built on the Transformer architecture.

Question

Paragraph or word?

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Answer

Word by word (technically, token by token). It calculates the probability of the first word, outputs it, then uses that new word to calculate the probability of the second word. This is called 'Autoregressive' generation.