[mooneater]

> not prediction based on anything statistical but based on one's understanding

It is still statistical. You still want to predict a distribution over expected next token.

However, the function needed to estimate the likely next tokens are not simple max over enumerated next tokens like in a language model. It's more like a transition model in reinforcement learning.

[NateEag]

> It is still statistical. You still want to predict a distribution over expected next token.

The fact that a process can be described statistically does not make the process itself statistical.

[DeathArrow]

With the current craze of neural networks people would like to think that anything that happens in the Universe is statistical. But it's really not.

[passion__desire]

Quantum mechanics is probablistic. But the probabilities are deterministic.