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The Word Machine
Understanding Language Models and Putting Them to Work
A fluent answer is only the beginning. The work still has to be done: a document checked, a program repaired, a decision made.
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Also available in Brazilian Portuguese: A máquina de palavras
Inside the book
The Word Machine follows that gap from the mathematics inside a language model to the systems we use at work. Through everyday examples and the author’s own experience, it explains how models learn, why they make convincing mistakes, and what helps us get useful work from them.
24 chapters, 30 diagrams, a glossary, source notes, an index, and eight practical worksheets.
Why I wrote this book
I wanted to understand the machine I was already using. I went back to the research, compared it with my own work, and kept asking what had actually happened after the conversation ended. This book grew from those questions.