How I'm Going to Explain LLMs to My Parents

I recently wrote a 2,500-word breakdown of how large language models work. Tokenization, vectors, attention mechanisms, training phases. I was pretty happy with it. &#xA; Then I realized my Mom is going to ask me what ChatGPT actually does. And none of that is going to matter. My Dad, who ran mainframes from 1974 to 2007, is going to need a completely different explanation. &#xA; My parents are…