I'm disappointed that you had to add the 'metamagical' to your question tbh It doesn't matter if ai is in a hype cycle or not it doesn't change how a technolog

I'm disappointed that you had to add the 'metamagical' to your question tbh It doesn't matter if ai is in a hype cycle or not it doesn't change how a technology works. Check out the yt videos from 1blue3brown he explains LLMs quite well. .your first step is the word embedding this vector space represents the relationship between words. Father - grandfather. The vector which makes a father a grandfather is the same vector as mother to grandmother. You the use these word vectors in the attention layer to create a n dimensional space aka latent space which basically reflects a 'world' the LLM walks through. This makes the 'magic' of LLMs. Basically a form of compression by having higher dimensions reflecting kind a meaning. Your brain does the same thing. It can't store pixels so when you go back to some childhood environment like your old room, you remember it in some efficient (brain efficient) way. Like the 'feeling' of it. That's also the reason why an LLM is not just some statistical parrot.