Understand AI Better than 90% of People in 2 Minutes Part 2: Context Windows In Part 1 , we learned that AI models process information using tokens. Think of tokens as the building blocks that power your conversation with your favorite AI tools. Now it's time to talk about where those blocks are stored. When you start a new conversation with ChatGPT (or any other LLM), a new workspace is created for that chat. That workspace is called a context window . The easiest way to think about a context window is as a whiteboard. The context window is the size of the board, and the tokens are the building blocks that fill it. Every question you ask gets written on the board. Every response the AI generates gets written on the board too. Every document you upload, every spreadsheet you analyze, every block of code you paste into the chat uses even more space on the board. At first, there is plenty of room. You can ask questions, refine ideas, upload documents, and build on previous responses....
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