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[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ok, point on language.

But I thought LLMs were machine learning, or rather a particular application of it? Have I misunderstood that? Isn't it all black boxed matrixes of statistical connections?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago

they're related in that sense, but what they learn is which token to generate next.