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AI does not handle anything as words. It handles them as tokens. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-tokens-explained/
Laymen terms.
If you want to ask a question to an LLM, you need to go down to an arcade and exchange your quarters for tokens. Then you can feed those tokens into your computer every time you want to ask a question.