Only hard words left: predicting twists and conclusions forces models to build world understanding
mlpowered · x · 2026-10-19
The closing piece of mlpowered's series: with easy words exhausted, what remains to predict are the hard ones — the answer to a complex equation, the twist at the end of a novel, the conclusion of a PhD thesis. Doing that well requires building an understanding of the world, "and that's just what we see when we look inside."
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