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Comment by BaseballPhysics

> In the field of understanding text, this is a progress which had seemed largely impossible before.

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LLMs don't understand text. They encode statistical probabilities of relationships between strings of characters. Those are not the same thing. That's the entire damn point of this article!

Honestly, for someone taking pot shots at "laymen", this is a profound thing to misunderstand.

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