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How ChatGPT Works?
2 min readFeb 12, 2023
ChatGPT is a conversational AI model developed by OpenAI. It is based on the Transformer architecture and uses a deep learning approach to generate human-like responses to text input.
Here’s a high-level overview of how ChatGPT works:
- Input: The model takes in a text prompt as input, which can be a question or a statement.
- Pre-processing: The input text is pre-processed to convert it into a numerical representation that the model can understand. This is typically done by converting words into numerical tokens using a vocabulary and tokenising the input text into sequences of tokens.
- Encoding: The input sequences are then fed into the model’s encoder, which uses multiple layers of self-attention mechanisms to capture the relationships between the tokens in the input text.
- Decoding: The encoded representation is then passed to the model’s decoder, which generates the response. The decoder uses a language generation process to predict the next token in the response, given the encoded input representation and the previously generated tokens.
- Output: The final output is a generated response, which is a sequence of tokens that are then converted back into text and returned to the user.
This process happens in real-time, and the model generates a response for each input prompt it receives. The model has been trained on a large dataset of text and has learned patterns in language, which allows it to generate coherent and contextually appropriate responses.