language model like ChatGPT has a powerful way of ‘understanding’ language by turning words into patterns that represent meaning and context, even though it doesn’t understand meaning and context the same way humans do. Its approach to reasoning, by predicting the next likely word from countless possibilities, is nothing like how humans use languag

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These new types of AI, called Large Language Models (LLMs), are still doing prediction, but rather than predicting the demand for an Amazon order, they are analyzing a piece of text and predicting the next token, which is simply a word or part of a word. Ultimately, that is all ChatGPT does technically—act as a very elaborate autocomplete like you

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