What Does It Mean to Be Intelligent? LLMs: Word Calculators or Something More? Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 are often described as “word calculators”: They don’t have an inherent understanding of the world. They can’t reason in the human sense. They can’t set their own goals or desires. Yet, from the seemingly simple objective of next-word prediction, we’ve seen a host of emergent properties. LLMs can: Write code and poetry Summarize complex documents Pass professional exams Hold conversations that feel intelligent These capabilities make LLMs appear very intelligent, even if their underlying mechanism is just statistical pattern matching.

What is Ollama? Ollama is a platform that makes it easy to run large language models (LLMs) like Llama, Gemma, Mistral, and many others on your local machine. It provides a simple interface for downloading, running, and interacting with these models directly from the terminal or via API, without relying on cloud services. This is especially useful for developers who want privacy, speed, and full control over their AI workflows.

Trend of LLM Large Language Models continue to find new use cases. Though they started off as smart chatbots developers are using the open source models (thanks to corporates like Meta who open source models and no thanks to OpenAI) and fine tuning them to be used for specific domains. It’s so obvious that in the future these LLM are going to be our personal copilot, our wingman each tailored to each individual.