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by AlecSchueler 30 days ago
> and markov chain don't work on token embedding that allows some encoding of meaning.

Working on an "encoding of meaning" sure sounds a lot like reasoning.

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Consider the classic ambiguity example from Natural Language Processing: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana".

Markov chains are mostly about memorized local co-occurrence, while transformers are much better at context-sensitive disambiguation and compositional structure.

I do not have deep knowledge about these subjects but this is what I think was meant by "encoding of meaning" (LLMs). I also do not think this capability has to be thought of as "reasoning".