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Re:How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent archit... by simianwords on Friday September 04, 2026 @02:10AM (#49561092)
How can you possibly believe this? If this were true, why do open weight models think in real English tokens and not arbitrary characters?
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Re:How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent archit... by khalic on Friday September 04, 2026 @05:49AM (#49562462)
I believe it because of scientific papers on the matter. It doesn't "think" that's the point, it's generating text that describes a thought process, it's related but not the same thing.
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