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Robert McNees on Mastodon

My students are often surprised to learn that LLMs aren’t answering their questions. Rather, an LLM answers the question “what would a reply to this look like?” It’s one of the first things I explain in the “Should I use LLMs?” portion of my syllabus.
Robert McNees on Mastodon
in reply to Mark Wollschlager

oh, that's a nice rather untechnical answer what a LLM is doing in one paragraph.

i have to copy that. Because it's summarizes very well what is happening for people who have no idea how these type AI works.

in reply to Mark Wollschlager

These same people are likely to be taken by grifts and scams too