Community Pushes Back on LeCun's "LLMs Are Just Retrieval" Claim

In response to Yann LeCun's claim that LLMs are merely giant retrieval systems, community authors countered that von Neumann machines are also memory-and-retrieval systems yet achieve universality, and that the relationships between weights—not the weights themselves—carry the real information in a network.

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