Terrence Tao: AI Is Teaching Us Something Uncomfortable About Our Own Minds [video]

I despise the "next token predictor" framing.

In order to predict the next token in this line "The solution to your problem is..." the entity needs to be able to solve your problem. Which is well beyond what people think of when they think of a token predicting statistical sequence.

The statistical sequence description is ridiculously incomplete.

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