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by frozenseven 17 days ago
>LLMs are next token predictors

The point is that this is no more relevant, informative, or even accurate than "carbon-based facial expression predictors". Any phenomenon in the Universe can be described by a simple and/or insulting short phrase. In other comments you've also shouted out "autocomplete!" and "Markov chain!", as if these phrases are a knock-down argument.

"Pachinko machine", "avalanche", and "game of mad libs" has also been used:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916405

>Humans learn through their experiences, not just backprop.

Sure, sure. And humans move through the act of walking, not just terrestrial locomotion.

>Token predictors are lesser, they are not alive and will never be alive.

And on and on it goes...

Which means what the real world? What are we supposed to see now or in the near-future? I assume you've been saying all of this stuff since at least the launch of ChatGPT. Probably longer than that.