👉 NO ONE SHOULD MISS THIS: HOW CHATGPT GENERATES RESPONSES
In just a few short seconds after you enter a prompt, ChatGPT goes through a long and complex process before generating a response on your screen.
To create a complete answer, ChatGPT processes information through hundreds of layers, each building the response one word at a time. Specifically, each layer follows these steps:
💡 Step 1: Masked Multi-head Self Attention & Add & Norm
Simply put, during this process, a masking layer hides future words, so ChatGPT can only analyze the words already provided. This helps the model calculate the importance of each word through attention scores.
In the Add step, the calculated importance scores are added to the original input, which consists of word representation vectors. This ensures that the model retains the initial information while incorporating new insights about word relationships.
Then, Norm (short for Normalization) adjusts the calculated values within a specific range to prevent extreme values that could introduce biases and make the model unstable.
💡 Step 2: Feed Forward Network & Add & Norm
The Feed Forward Network is a simple neural network that helps ChatGPT understand complex relationships between words. It generates new, more refined word representation vectors, adding deeper meaning to word associations.
The Add & Norm step functions similarly to the one in Masked Multi-head Self Attention.
By passing through many such layers, the model learns to predict the next word with greater accuracy based on context. Eventually, we reach the Linear & Softmax step, the final stage in generating the next word.
💡 Step 3: Linear & Softmax
In the Linear layer, each word in the vocabulary is assigned a score based on its likelihood of appearing next. These scores are then converted into probabilities in the Softmax layer (ranging from 0 to 1). The word with the highest probability is selected as the output and added to the response.
This process repeats, with the newly generated sequence fed back into the model to predict the next word.
🤓 Example: Let’s say we start with the phrase: "I am very..."
Step 1: ChatGPT analyzes the relationships between "I", "am", and "very" to understand the meaning and context. It recognizes that "very" often precedes an adjective.
Step 2: ChatGPT determines that words expressing emotions (e.g., "happy", "tired", "sad") are likely to follow.
Step 3: It assigns probabilities to these words—e.g., "happy" (40%), "sad" (20%), "tired" (5%)—and selects "happy" as the next word since it has the highest probability.
And all of this happens in just seconds. Pretty fast, right? 🚀
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