Why in the news?

• A government working paper proposed that large language models (LLMs) should be permitted to access content that is freely available online.

AI large language models (LLMs)

• What is it?: Large Language Models (LLMs) are advanced artificial intelligence systems designed to understand, generate, and manipulate human language.
• Features:
  • They are trained on very large datasets.
  • Produce coherent, human-like text responses.
  • Can understand context, intent, and nuance in language.
  • Works based on Transformer architecture and learns statistical relationships between words and tokens.
• Applications:
  • Governance & Public Administration: Policy drafting, document summarisation, grievance redressal chatbots.
  • Education: Personalized tutoring, exam preparation, content generation.
  • Healthcare: Clinical documentation, medical literature analysis (non-diagnostic use).
  • Business & Industry: Customer support, market analysis, code generation.
  • Research & Innovation: Literature review, hypothesis generation.
  • Defense & Security: Intelligence analysis support (with safeguards).
• Examples: Open AI (GPT series), Google Gemini, Meta (LLaMA), Mistral AI etc.

Source: The Hindu