chapter one

1 Word’s Awakening: Why Large Language Models Have Captured Attention

 

This chapter covers

  • What Large Language Models are and what they can and cannot do
  • When you should deploy your own Large Language Models and when should not
  • Large Language Model myths and the truths that lie behind them
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

- Arthur C. Clarke

The year is 1450. A sleepy corner of Mainz, Germany, unknowingly stands on the precipice of a monumental era. In Humbrechthof, a nondescript workshop shrouded in the town's shadows pulsates with anticipation. It is here that Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith and innovator, sweats and labors amidst the scents of oil, metal, and determination, silently birthing a revolution. In the late hours of the night, the peace is broken intermittently by the rhythmic hammering of metal on metal. In the lamp-lit heart of the workshop stands Gutenberg's decade-long labor of love—a contraption unparalleled in design and purpose.

1.1 Large Language Models accelerating communication

1.2 Navigating between the Build and Buy decision with Large Language Models

1.2.1 Buying: the beaten path

1.2.2 Building: the path less traveled

1.2.3 A word of warning: embrace the future now

1.3 Debunking myths

1.4 Summary