You think “one word = one token.” Professor Whitaker has bad news. Before an AI model can understand your prompt, it breaks text into tokens—then IDs, vectors, and predictions. That’s why code, URLs, names, numbers, and even “unbelievable” can behave differently inside an LLM. Humans see words. Language models see token sequences. #AIExplained #MachineLearning #LLM #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence