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What is AI and How Does It Actually Work — A Beginner's Guide

New to all this? Start here. It skips the sci-fi buzzwords and explains, in plain language, what's actually happening when you use a tool like ChatGPT — no coding background needed.

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Quick, honest definitions for the terms you keep hearing but nobody quite explains. Tap a question to expand it.

What is an LLM?

Short for "Large Language Model" — the type of AI behind ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. It's trained on huge amounts of text to predict what word should come next, which is how it ends up able to write, answer questions, and hold a conversation.

What is a "token"?

The small chunks of text an AI model actually reads and writes in — often a word or part of a word. It's why AI tools sometimes charge or limit you by "tokens used" instead of by word count.

What is a "prompt"?

Simply the instructions or question you type in. The skill of writing clear, specific prompts is often the biggest difference between a useless AI answer and a genuinely useful one.

What is a "context window"?

The amount of text an AI can "remember" at once during a conversation — including everything you've typed so far. Once you go past it, the model starts forgetting the earliest parts of the chat.

What does "fine-tuning" mean?

Taking an already-trained AI model and training it a bit further on a specific, narrower set of examples — so it gets better at one particular task or style without starting from scratch.

What are "parameters"?

The internal settings a model adjusts while learning from data — often quoted in the billions for modern AI. More parameters can mean more capability, but not always; how a model is trained matters just as much.

What does "multimodal" mean?

An AI that can work with more than just text — understanding or generating images, audio, or video too, not only written language.

What's the difference between "open-source" and "closed" AI models?

Open-source models publish their underlying weights so anyone can download, inspect, or run them. Closed models (like most versions of ChatGPT) are only accessible through the company's own app or API — you can use them, but not see or run the model yourself.

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