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by uh_uh 314 days ago
An LLM is an autocorrect in as much as humans are replicators. Something seriously gets lost in this "explanation".
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Humans do much more than replicate, that is one function we have of many.

What does an LLM do, other than output a weighted prediction of tokens based on its training database? Everything you can use an LLM for is a manipulation of that functionality.

> An LLM is an autocorrect in as much as humans are replicators.

an autocorrect... on steroids.

What are humans, fundamentally, then ?
That is a good questions and I guess we have good progress since Plato whose definition was - A man is a featherless biped.

But I think we still do not know.