Debate Flares Over Whether LLMs Are Just Samplers Without Intelligence

gerardsans pushed back against claims that LLMs are mere samplers of training data and thus lack intelligence, arguing that the sampler, the data, and the output are distinct—much like a person using a lookup table doesn't become a calculator.

2026-09-29 ~ 2026-09-29 · 2 related posts

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