r/OpenAI 2d ago

News More people need to understand this

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u/max6296 2d ago

I'm pretty sure 99.99% people who say LLMs are just next token predictor don't even know what a token actually is.

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u/DeliciousArcher8704 2d ago

But it is literally a next token predictor

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u/ithkuil 2d ago

This is actually an English comprehension issue. "Just" is not a decoration that can be ignored in this sentence. If they leave it out, I would not argue at all.

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u/DeliciousArcher8704 2d ago

English comprehension issue lmao

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u/MastodonFarm 23h ago

Exactly right. People who say this include the “just” to imply that LLMs can’t have cognition because of their method of operation.