GIF style too. I like being subtle with my humor.

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    4 hours ago

    Man I feel stupid. I don’t get the purpose of tokens. It’s to track your AI usage to make sure you’re using it? Or it’s to somehow limit your queries fo ensure a team uses it equally? Or…?

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      LLMs predict the next best “token”. So what’s a token? It can be a word, a simple punctuation mark, or sometimes even a phrase.

      So basically, here’s what an LLM works like:

      1. An
      2. An apple
      3. An apple is
      4. An apple is red

      Basically, it feeds in tokens to itself to predict the next best token. Then, that entire chunk of tokens is fed back in to predict the next token.

      As you can see, tokens kinda correlate well with energy consumption, hardware wear and tear and so on.

      So, a low token request will consume less resources than a high token request. Hence, it makes sense to charge per token.

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      It reminds me of being in 1968 and seeing such epically amazing film quality like wtf throw some snow in there or some sepia plz wtf I’m drunk

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      Haha naah, the code that sees if you have enough tokens or not isn’t an LLM.

      It (from what I understand) just sits between you and the LLM.

      No tricking it haha