Capabilities and Limitations of LLMs
Explore what LLMs genuinely excel at and where they fail, including hallucinations, knowledge cutoffs, and reasoning limits, to set realistic project expectations.
What LLMs Genuinely Excel At
LLMs shine at language work: summarizing, translating, writing code, and reshaping text into formats like JSON. Give a couple examples and they catch the pattern fast.
Hallucination: The Fundamental Failure Mode
Hallucination is when a model confidently states something false. It predicts what sounds likely, not what's true — so never trust it as your only source of facts.
All lessons in this course
- From Autocomplete to ChatGPT
- Transformers and Attention in Plain English
- How LLMs Are Trained
- Capabilities and Limitations of LLMs