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How it functionally works, its the next word / token / chunk a lot more than its an "idea". An idea is even rough to define
The other relatively accurate analogy is a probabilistic database
Neither work if you've fallen into anthropomorphising, but they're relatively accurate to architecture and testing for people that aren't too computer literate, far more than the anthropomorphising alternatives at least