Explaining GPT to a kid

Today, applications like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity are becoming very popular. Airtel even partnered with Perplexity AI to offer its users a free 12-month Pro subscription, valued at around ₹17,000 per year. People of all ages are using these AI services, from grandparents to employees for daily tasks, and even kids for entertainment, passing time, and homework. Many users, including kids, use these tools without fully understanding what they are, how they work, or how they provide the exact information requested.

If we break down "GPT," it stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, which explains itself:

• G = generative → It means it creates something.

• P = pre-trained → It's already been trained on a lot of data before you start using it. This data is provided to the model beforehand, so what it generates is based on what it has learned.

• T = transformer → It takes input, processes it, and produces output. The output is completely based on the pre-trained data we already gave to the model.

So, the above explanation was mostly on the basis of its full form. We can break it down into simpler words, i.e., the work of these AI models is that they are just predicting on the basis of what comes next. So, how it works is first it takes the full sentence, then it breaks the sentence into small parts, which can be based on anything, like each word, each character, anything. So after splitting what it does is it assigns each splitted term which we call it as token a number can be anything which number has its token and based on that number it predicts the next word or anything. in splitting ai model considers commas and psaces as well and assign them number too, not only these but all special character.

So, this was from my side a small explanation for a kid of what GPT is actually and how it works, what its functionality is. Thank you for giving your special time to my blog.