Generative AI with an Emphasis on LLM Explained

Hayriye Anıl
13 min readJul 19, 2024

Hello and welcome to my blog series on Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)!

I have dedicated a significant amount of time to researching, reading books, and taking courses on generative AI and LLMs. Through this journey, I’ve gathered a wealth of knowledge that I am excited to share. This series aims to provide a comprehensive overview, starting with the fundamentals and progressing to more advanced concepts. In this first article, I will introduce the basic information about Generative AI and LLMs. Whether you are a beginner or someone looking to deepen your understanding, I hope you find this series informative and engaging.

Let’s dive in!

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What is Generative AI?

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that produces new high-quality content and ideas such as chat, stories, images, video, music and code.

Generative AI became known globally when OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022. ChatGPT, a chatbot that interacts with users through a web interface, generates a response to commands such as write a short story, write a poem, explain artificial intelligence, etc. While it took 16 years for the mobile phone to become widespread, 7 years for the Internet, and 4.5 years for Facebook, ChatGPT achieved the speed of reaching 100…

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