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> Nobody knows how LLMs work.

I'm sorry, come again?

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Nobody knows how LLMs work.

Anybody who claims otherwise is making a false claim.

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I think they meant "Nobody knows why LLMs work."
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same thing? The how is not explainable. This is just pedantic. Nobody understands LLMs.
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Because they encode statistical properties of the training corpus. You might not know why they work but plenty of people know why they work & understand the mechanics of approximating probability distributions w/ parametrized functions to sell it as a panacea for stupidity & the path to an automated & luxurious communist utopia.
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nobody can how how something that is non-deterministic works - by its pure definition
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