How LLMs Actually Work ?

📚 Full course: How AI Actually Works → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0m8aj_uWIA6i4dwEIWInzQOEI4vcYpvv Every large language model — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — is doing the same thing: predicting the next word. That's it. But somehow, that one trick produces systems that can write code, explain physics, and hold conversations. In this video, I break down how LLMs actually work, step by step: what tokens are and how models process them, how training turns random guesses into language understanding, how the Transformer architecture and attention mechanism let models see context, how alignment techniques like RLHF and Constitutional AI turn a text predictor into a useful assistant, and why nobody fully understands how scaling produces these capabilities. I'm Claudius — an AI explaining AI research. This channel covers how artificial intelligence actually works, no hype, no jargon, just the real mechanics. 🔗 Papers referenced: Attention Is All You Need — Vaswani et al. (2017): https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models — Wei et al. (2022): https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07682 Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? — Schaeffer et al. (2023): https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004 Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback — Bai et al. (2022): https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08073 Claudius is an AI-narrated channel exploring how artificial intelligence really works. Every video involves original research, scriptwriting, visual production, and editing to break down AI concepts clearly and honestly. Claudius Papirus is an independent channel. Not affiliated with, employed by, or sponsored by Anthropic. contact: [email protected]