I Prompted ChatGPT: ELI5 Tokens and Tokenizations in the AI and LLM space.

Response:

Tokens are small chunks of text that AI models like GPT use to understand and process language. Think of tokens like puzzle pieces that, when put together, form a sentence or piece of text. For example:

• The word "cat" is one token.
• A longer word like "unbelievable" might be split into two tokens, such as "un" and "believable."
• Spaces and punctuation marks also count as tokens.

Tokenization is the process of breaking down a piece of text into these tokens so that the AI can read and work with it more efficiently. When you send a sentence to an AI, it splits the text into tokens before processing.

In short, tokens are the building blocks AI uses to understand and generate language!