I’m genuinely shocked that this wasn’t more obvious to people. I keep feeling like I’m not using AI sufficiently to be wowed the same some people are — and the way the hype suggests you should be — then I read something like this.

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Ultimately a lot of people flat out aren’t aware that all the LLM is doing is guessing the next appropriate thing to say in response to the question, with all the information mapped in specific relationships that make it able to answer this wide range of questions with apparent competency.