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marcus_holmestoday at 2:23 AM1 replyview on HN

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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greggoBtoday at 4:48 AM

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