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Comment by marcus_holmes

5 hours ago

Does an LLM have any idea of what "best" is?

I think it doesn't, and just predicts the range of most statistically likely next tokens based on its training data, and picks one of those.

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greggoB  2 hours ago

In ML, "best" is what minimises the loss function, so in a certain (very basic) sense it does.

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