‣ this is what happens when you send a prompt to ChatGPT
for example, when you type
“why don't I have a girlfriend?”
your prompt is converted into binary and broken into tiny packets.
that binary data leaves your phone or laptop through your Wi-Fi, goes to your router, travels through your ISP, and heads toward an AI data center.
if that data center is across an ocean, it will go through fiber optic cables
[ p.s - light travels through prism at about 125,000 miles per second so the entire process takes about 40-80 milliseconds, you won't even notice. ]
so when it gets to the data center, your request gets routed to servers packed with AI chips like GPUs or TPUs.
the model processes your prompt and starts generating a response.
and here's the fun part
you'll notice that any time these LLMs (Claude/ChatGPT/etc) are responding it kind of loads as if it's streaming.
it appears word by word
yesss, that's streaming.
the server js sending back pieces of the generated response back in realtime as it's been produced.
and that my fellow retards, is how prompts work.