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#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

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Training LLMs and Auto-Regressive Prediction

LLMs are trained by masking words in a text and training a neural net to predict the missing words. The neural net predicts the next word by generating a probability distribution over all possible words in the dictionary and sampling a word based on this distribution. This process is called auto-regressive prediction, which is why these LLMs are referred to as auto-regressive LLMs.

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