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by refulgentis 839 days ago
It's very far off, like "not even wrong" in the Pauli sense of the phrase.

There's a lot of abstractions one can have for this stuff, I think you're looking at that "text predictor" is one of them?

If you roll with that, then you're in a position where you're saying GPT-2 class LLMs were very close in 1960, because at the end of the day, it's just a dictionary lookup with a string key and a value of list<string> completions. That confuses instead of illuminates.