Comment by yusina
9 months ago
> Hacker news people still think LLMs are just some statistical model guessing things.
That's exactly what they are. It's the definition of what they are. If you are talking about something that is doing something else, then it's not an LLM.
No, it's not. Arrogant developers on HN like to parrot this, but it isn't true.
The power of LLMs are the emergent properties that have emerged which weren't specifically taught to the model. That is not a property that exists in statistical, largely more deterministic models.
If you think it's just a giant token prediction machine you've just ignored the last 5 years.
yawn.
this is so reductive it's almost not even worth talking about. you can prove yourself wrong within 30 minutes but you choose not to.
Sorry, I don't follow. How do you define LLMs?