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Comment by astrange

5 hours ago

LLMs also don't work by generating probability distributions of the next word. Your explanation isn't able to explain why they can generate words, let alone sentences.

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qsera  4 hours ago

That is exactly how they work.

  • astrange  23 minutes ago

    No, a token is not a word.

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