Before ChatGPT: Early Adopters Recall Not Getting Next-Token Prediction at All
benstein · x · 2026-09-03
Ben Stein recalls a pre-ChatGPT memory: at Twilio he got early access to a bizarre LLM API — feed it examples, start a sentence, and it magically generated what comes next.\n\nHe admits he didn't get next-token prediction at all back then; it took the chat interface to unlock the technology's value.
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