Pakistan, July 14 -- It is a fact that we talk to AI systems every day in some capacity, at some level and it is also a fact that most of us still misunderstand what happens on the other side of the screen. The confusion is justified and needs to be addressed through some elaboration in the least technical terms. Companies market these systems with language borrowed from human cognition: it "thinks," it "understands," it "remembers." None of these words mean, what they mean when applied to a person. Understanding how a large language model actually works matters, because the gap between what it appears to do and what it actually does, shapes how much trust can be placed in the output; often mistakenly, overwhelming.

How it works? A large...