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Indeed, isn’t that the point?

LLM training is designed to distill a massive corpus of facts, in the form of token sequences, into a much, much smaller bundle of information that encodes (somehow!) the deep structure of those facts minus their particulars.

They’re not search engines, they’re abstract pattern matchers.



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