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by dmd 1122 days ago
> You should expect similar results as if it was bunch of people passing a single piece of paper to each other, each writing a single word on it, not communicating with each other in any other way and trying their best to come up with coherent result.

I'm pretty sure GPT-4's context window is bigger than '1 token'.

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Yes, obviously...? A piece of paper holds more than a single word as well. That piece of paper is the context in this analogy.

It still generates one token at a time and can't backtrack afterwards.