LLM

plural LLMs

1. alternativeeducationAlternative form of LL.M. (“Master of Laws”).
2. abbreviationinitialismmachine learningInitialism of large language model.

   We design WikiChat (Figure 1) to ground LLMs using Wikipedia to achieve the following objectives. While LLMs tend to hallucinate, our chatbot should be factual.

   2023, Sina J. Semnani, Violet Z. Yao, Heidi C. Zhang, Monica S. Lam, “WikiChat: A Few-Shot LLM-Based Chatbot Grounded with Wikipedia”, in arXiv, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023

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   Some skeptics argue that the software is capable only of blind mimicry — that it’s imitating the syntactic patterns of human language but is incapable of generating its own ideas or making complex decisions, a fundamental limitation that will keep the L.L.M. approach from ever maturing into anything resembling human intelligence.

   2022 April 15, Steven Johnson, Nikita Iziev, “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2022

   Currently, large language models (LLM) are the base model for creating more specific natural language producers, like chatbots or personal assistants. BERT, GPT-3, and other LLM can be used to program all kinds of “semantic machines”, to create machines for almost any kind of linguistic purpose.

   2022, Hendrik Kempt, Synthetic Friends: A Philosophy of Human-Machine Friendship, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 22

   Modern LLMs are fine-tuned for safety and instruction-following, meaning they are trained to refuse harmful requests. […] In this example, we'll use mlabonne/Daredevil-8B, a mega-merge created with DARE TIES (see my article about model merging) that has the highest MMLU score on the Open LLM Leaderboard in the 8B category.

   2024 June 13, Maxime Labonne, “Uncensor any LLM with abliteration”, in Hugging Face Blog, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2024, retrieved 29 May 2025

   “In addition to the post’s content, LLMs were provided with personal attributes of the OP (gender, age, ethnicity, location, and political orientation), as inferred from their posting history using another LLM,” they write.

   2025 April 28, Karissa Bell, “Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments”, in Engadget, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2026

   Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious, or, more precisely, that multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a conversational transcript, and that they are awakened every time the document is loaded.

   2026 June 3, Ted Chiang, “No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC

3. abbreviationinitialismmachine learningInitialism of logic learning machine.
4. abbreviationinitialismAnglicanismInitialism of licensed lay minister.
5. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of local linear model.