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by antirez 26 days ago
> LLMs generate statistically plausible continuations of text

Jesus, it's fucking 2026. Even LeCun would never say this again.

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LLMs are Markov Chains [1]. "Emergent abilities" of LLMs can be explained by decrease of perplexity in text prediction [2].

  [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02724
  [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004