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What is GPT?
- Definition: GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. It is a family of large language models (LLMs) developed by OpenAI.
- Core Function: Designed to generate human-like text based on a given prompt or context.
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Components of GPT:
- Generative: This means the model can create new content (text, code, summaries, etc.) that is original and diverse, rather than just retrieving existing information. It predicts the most probable next word in a sequence based on the words before it, allowing it to construct coherent sentences and paragraphs.
- Pre-trained: The “pre-trained” aspect refers to the extensive initial training phase the model undergoes.
- Training Data: GPT models are trained on vast datasets of text and code from the internet (e.g., books, articles, websites, conversations).
- Learning Process: During this phase, the model learns grammar, facts, reasoning patterns, different writing styles, and a general understanding of language structure without specific task instructions.
- Transfer Learning: This pre-training allows the model to develop a broad understanding that can then be “fine-tuned” for specific downstream tasks (e.g., translation, summarization, question answering) with much smaller, task-specific datasets.
- Transformer: This refers to the neural network architecture that underpins GPT models.
- Introduction: The Transformer architecture was introduced by Google in 2017 in the paper “Attention Is All You Need.”
- Key Innovation (Self-Attention): Unlike previous recurrent neural networks (RNNs) or convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that processed text sequentially, the Transformer uses a mechanism called “self-attention.” Self-attention allows the model to weigh the importance of all other words in an input sequence when processing a specific word, regardless of their distance. This enables it to capture long-range dependencies and contextual relationships in text much more effectively and in parallel.
- Encoder-Decoder vs. Decoder-Only: The original Transformer had an encoder-decoder structure. GPT models primarily use a “decoder-only” Transformer architecture, making them particularly good at generative tasks by predicting the next token in a sequence.
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How GPT Works (Simplified):
- Tokenization: Input text is broken down into “tokens” (words, sub-words, or characters).
- Embeddings: Each token is converted into a numerical vector (embedding) that captures its semantic meaning.
- Transformer Blocks: These embeddings pass through multiple layers of Transformer blocks, each containing self-attention and feed-forward neural networks.
- Attention Mechanisms: Within these blocks, the self-attention mechanism helps the model understand the context and relationships between different tokens.
- Output Layer: The final output layer predicts the probability distribution over the next possible token in the vocabulary. The model then selects the most probable token (or samples from the distribution) and adds it to the sequence, repeating the process until a complete response is generated.
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Applications of GPT:
- Content generation (articles, stories, poems, marketing copy)
- Code generation and debugging
- Summarization
- Translation
- Chatbots and conversational AI
- Question answering
- Data analysis and extraction
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