"Random statistical predictions" misreads LLMs: models learn internal algorithms
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-03
Pushing back on the claim that AI is just soulless random statistical prediction, burnytech notes that pure randomness would cause an intractable combinatorial explosion. LLMs instead learn internal algorithms and structures — precisely what the field of mechanistic interpretability studies by reverse-engineering them.
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