'LLMs Are Just Vector Multiplication'? So Are Humans Just Atoms Obeys Physics
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-21
In a debate over what LLMs fundamentally are, @ToKTeacher pushes back on the reductionist take that they're "just a bunch of vectors and multiplication": that's like saying humans are "a bunch of atoms obeying dynamical laws." His argument: there exists emergent simplicity and laws not predictable from the vectors or the atoms.
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