How Transformers Actually Predict the Next Word: The Magic Behind Modern AI

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Discover the fascinating process behind how transformers predict text, from tokenization to probability distributions, demystifying the core mechanism that powers modern AI.

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Nat Currier. "How Transformers Actually Predict the Next Word: The Magic Behind Modern AI." nat.io, 2025-09-07. https://nat.io/blog/how-transformers-predict-next-word

Explains how transformers predict the next word using tokenization, embeddings, attention mechanisms, and probability distributions, detailing the mathematical and linguistic processes that enable modern AI text gener...

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