A Practical Introduction to LLMs

3 levels of using LLMs in practice

Shaw Talebi
Towards Data Science
7 min readJul 13, 2023

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This is the first article in a series on using Large Language Models (LLMs) in practice. Here I will give an introduction to LLMs and present 3 levels of working with them. Future articles will explore practical aspects of LLMs, such as how to use OpenAI’s public API, the Hugging Face Transformers Python library, how to fine-tune LLMs, and how to build an LLM from scratch.

Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash

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