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tootietoday at 1:56 AM4 repliesview on HN

No? There's no model involved. It's all just probabilistic. LLMs understand what you're thinking as well as a mood ring.


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roenxitoday at 2:13 AM

It isn't possible to have "just probabilistic" (maybe a philosophical exception could be made for a uniform random distribution or whatever provides the little dose of randomness required to get nondeterministic results). Probabilities are always in context of a model. LLMs model language but language itself is a model of something else. My money would have been on language modelling nonsense, but that is quite clearly not the case. Turns out it models the world and so do LLMs.

aoeusnth1today at 2:32 AM

The model is the thing which is learned in order to make the probabilistic prediction with low entropy.

hellohello2today at 2:03 AM

The literal definition of a model is "an informative representation of an object, person, or system". I think you mean something else though, what are you trying to express exactly?

afthonostoday at 2:08 AM

Nothing about an LLM is “just”. In what precise sense do you mean it is probabilistic?

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