That’s not what they said. They said that the difference is not that.
[LLMs] are statistical token generators whose results are
dependent upon their training data set and involve a degree
of randomness.
During conversation, we are statistical token generators
whose results are dependent upon our training set.
> That’s not what they said.
How did I misquote and/or mischaracterize any the above?
Hypothetical you: “Bread is neither tasty nor disgusting (unlike maple syrup). It’s a bunch of molecules.”
Hypothetical hodgehog: “Maple syrup is also a bunch of molecules [so if you accept that maple syrup can be delicious, being a bunch of molecules can’t be a sufficient reason why bread couldn’t be].”
Hypothetical you: “If you don’t see a difference between bread and maple syrup, I don’t know what to say.”
It is also possible that the proverb I provided to you is the origin of the oft quoted:
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak
and remove all doubt.