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> People do exactly the same thing! Haven't you ever wasted a lot of time chasing down a blind alley?

Thus is why I think calling out that it is just predicting tokens is relevant. LLM are trained on human written communication. Humans say they found the root cause often, so the LLMs say it often. Even when not true.

Idk if thats true or not, but LLMs mimicking some average speech written pattern isnt crazy to me.

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LLMs aren’t just blindly parroting human speech, though -- they’re not trivial Markov chains any more, copying words and phrases at the surface level.

You can argue back and forth about whether LLMs are actually “conscious”, whatever that means, but it’s clear that they can be tremendously effective and useful. They can use language to get stuff done.

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