IntelliTechs ยท Oct 04, 2026
Treat chatbots as a fast assistant for drafts, summaries and ideas, but double-check dates, numbers, names and quotes before you rely on them.
A language model calculates the probability of a word (or a piece of a word) showing up after a stretch of text.
Computers work with numbers, not letters. So text is chopped into tokens, pieces that can be a whole word, part of a word or a single character.
The context window is the number of tokens the model can consider at once. It includes your request, the conversation so far and the answer being written.
The model does not look facts up in a database. It generates the text that seems most likely. Most of the time, the most likely text is also the correct one.
Think of a language model as a brilliant, fast, extremely well-read intern who never admits they don't know something.
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