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Large Language Model (LLM)

A deep learning model trained on vast amounts of text data, capable of understanding and generating human-like language across diverse topics.

  • LLM
  • generative AI
  • language models
  • transformers

Definition

LLMs are transformer-based models with billions or trillions of parameters. They learn statistical patterns from training data, enabling them to complete text, answer questions, and engage in dialogue.

Scale

Larger models generally perform better on complex tasks, but require more computational resources to train and deploy.

Governance Scope

LLMs pose broad governance risks: they can generate harmful content, encode biases, hallucinate false information, and have unpredictable emergent behaviors as scale increases.

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