No, reducing LLMs to just “statistical text predictor” is an absurdity; but so is leisurely stringing together observations from unstructured experimentation to form a “matter-of-fact” conclusion.
Read the ChatGPT paper and specifically hone in on “transformer” and “input processing” (paraphrased). It will give you a clearer picture of what it actually is, rather than appears to be.
No, reducing LLMs to just “statistical text predictor” is an absurdity; but so is leisurely stringing together observations from unstructured experimentation to form a “matter-of-fact” conclusion.
Read the ChatGPT paper and specifically hone in on “transformer” and “input processing” (paraphrased). It will give you a clearer picture of what it actually is, rather than appears to be.