{"id":166800,"date":"2023-07-02T23:23:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T04:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/what-are-large-language-models-and-why-are-they-important"},"modified":"2023-07-02T23:23:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T04:23:40","slug":"what-are-large-language-models-and-why-are-they-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/what-are-large-language-models-and-why-are-they-important","title":{"rendered":"What Are Large Language Models and Why Are They Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-are-large-language-models-and-why-are-they-important2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI applications are summarizing articles, writing stories and engaging in long conversations \u2014 and <i>large language models<\/i> are doing the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/glossary\/data-science\/large-language-models\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">large language model, or LLM<\/a>, is a deep learning algorithm that can recognize, summarize, translate, predict and generate text and other forms of content based on knowledge gained from massive datasets.<\/p>\n<p>Large language models are among the most successful applications of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/25\/what-is-a-transformer-model\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transformer models<\/a>. They aren\u2019t just for teaching AIs human languages, but for understanding proteins, writing software code, and much, much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI applications are summarizing articles, writing stories and engaging in long conversations \u2014 and large language models are doing the heavy lifting. A large language model, or LLM, is a deep learning algorithm that can recognize, summarize, translate, predict and generate text and other forms of content based on knowledge gained from massive datasets. Large [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}