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230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is Next Token Prediction a Good Idea?

In some sense, all the language model is doing is predicting what will come next. Is that exactly right? Or is there a sense in which it's predicting what sentence will come next? How much depth does it have in terms of constructing coherent text? The latter is the case for most standard language models and the ones you generally would hear of like GPT-3,. chat GPT and so on. These are really trained to simplify things a little bit on next word prediction.

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