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by light_hue_1 584 days ago
This is just totally false.

That's exactly what countless techniques related to chain of thought do.

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The closest explanation to how chain of through works is suppressing the probability of a termination token.

People have found that even letting llms generate gibberish tokens produces better final outputs. Which isn't a surprise when you realise that the only way a llm can do computation is by outputting tokens.

It’s sometimes like, are these critics using the tools? It’s a strange schism at the moment.
It's my job to build these tools. I'm well aware of their strengths and shortcomings.
Unless you are building one of the frontier models, I’m not sure that your experience gives you insight on those models. Perhaps it just creates needless assumptions.
I'm building the layer on top of the models.

People call it agentic AI but that's a word without a definition.

Needless to say better LLMs help with my work, the same way that a stronger horse makes plowing easier.

The difference is that unlike horse breeders, e.g. Anthropic and openAI, I want to get to the internal combustion engine and tractors.