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[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

LLMs are extensions of the techniques developed for autocomplete in phones. There's a direct lineage

That's not true.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How is this untrue? Generative pre-training is literally training the model to predict what might come next in a given text.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not what an LLM is. That's part of how it works, but it's not the whole process.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

They never claimed that it was the whole thing. Only that it was part of it.