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Quiz: How LLMs Work

5 questionsNo time limitPass: 60%+10 XP on first pass

What an LLM really does (predict the next token), tokens and context windows, training vs using a model, why models make things up, what they're good and bad at, and what an "AI engineer" builds around them — with a tiny runnable next-word predictor.

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  1. Question 1

    What does an LLM fundamentally do?

  2. Question 2

    Why does a chat app send the whole conversation with every request?

  3. Question 3

    What is a hallucination?

  4. Question 4

    As an AI engineer building a college help bot, what do you mainly control?

  5. Question 5

    Which task should an LLM hand to a tool or code instead of doing itself?