[HN Gopher] Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. Bu...
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       Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows
       why.
        
       Author : branko_d
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-03-09 17:27 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | sublinear wrote:
       | > one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time
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       | > a hidden mathematical pattern in language that large language
       | models somehow come to exploit... the fact that these things
       | model language is probably one of the biggest discoveries in
       | history
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       | Is it? Excuse my ignorance. If we were talking about simple
       | Markov chains, aren't these just stationary distributions?
        
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