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Re:I disagree with Geoff Hinton regarding "glorified autocom... by TerrifiedMouse on Saturday November 18, 2023 @12:56PM (#38322316)
I don’t think LLMs work towards anything. It just picks from a list of likely “next tokens” at random.
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Re:I disagree with Geoff Hinton regarding "glorified autocom... by brookst on Saturday November 18, 2023 @01:11PM (#38322506)
“Likely” as defined by…?
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Re:I disagree with Geoff Hinton regarding "glorified autocom... by TerrifiedMouse on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:26PM (#38324000)
Statistics as defined by training data.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

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