You know, I'm well aware of how an LLM works (partially. mostly anyway), but if you pulled in any layperson from the street and ask them to explain how it's possible that they can speak natural language commands into their phones and get a useful response as if they were talking to a human, you'd be hard pressed to get a more precise answer than along the lines
> It's something with to do with data, and I know it's not magic, but...
Maybe you were not familiar with the quote I was alluding to:
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
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You know, I'm well aware of how an LLM works (partially. mostly anyway), but if you pulled in any layperson from the street and ask them to explain how it's possible that they can speak natural language commands into their phones and get a useful response as if they were talking to a human, you'd be hard pressed to get a more precise answer than along the lines
> It's something with to do with data, and I know it's not magic, but...
Maybe you were not familiar with the quote I was alluding to:
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws