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IUsing AIchecked 92 days ago12 min read
What a Language Model Actually Does
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A tested mental model — three experiments run on a real model and written up
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- 01Ask it how many r's are in "strawberry"
- 02Why nobody explains this
- 03Mechanism 1 — It doesn't read letters. It reads tokens.
- 04Mechanism 2 — It predicts the next token. That's the whole job.
- 05Mechanism 3 — The context window is everything it can see
- 06Mechanism 4 — Same question, different answer
- 07Mechanism 5 — Why it invents things, and why that won't be patched out
- 08Mechanism 6 — Two different trainings
- 09What this means for you
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