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Nick † Wright
@nickwrightdata.ntw.app

UGH, PAUL, NO, IT DOESN'T!! IT JUST KNOWS THE MOST LIKELY NEXT WORD GIVEN A SEQUENCE OF PREVIOUS WORDS! DON'T JUMP DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE OF THINKING LLMS CAN THINK!! THEY JUST KNOW THE NEXT WOOORRRD!! THEY JUST KNOW THE NEXT WOOOOR-HRRR-HRRRD!!!!!!! *sobs*

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com

This is the crux of the debate, right? Whether it's doing mimicry or reasoning. I struggle to see how you could view it as purely mimicry. It has to tie together multiple novel thoughts in a logical construction to create its responses.

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Fred Connelly
@brendonconnelly.bsky.social

Yes. Except I'd say they don't even know the next word. They just select one, based on some sort of RNG and probability. 'Knowing' could hardly be more alien of a concept to what they do.