>>Give any LLM the first paragraph of any Wikipedia article - almost certainly in the training set, and uniquely so - and it won't predict the next word correctly, a lot of the time. But it will predict a word that is grammatically correct, stylistically apropos, and most likely factually correct. So what's it really doing, hm?
you are grossly negligent of LLMs are created. I would highly recommend reading about post training, RLHF, alignment etc. First pass of training is literally "predict the next token". That's it. The first pass is also known as pre training. There's a shit ton of work (instructions, tool use, and reasoning etc) that's done afterwards because the pre-trained is model is useless. if you have some free time, I'd recommend doing this course - https://www.deeplearning.ai/courses/post-training-of-llms
you are grossly negligent of LLMs are created. I would highly recommend reading about post training, RLHF, alignment etc. First pass of training is literally "predict the next token". That's it. The first pass is also known as pre training. There's a shit ton of work (instructions, tool use, and reasoning etc) that's done afterwards because the pre-trained is model is useless. if you have some free time, I'd recommend doing this course - https://www.deeplearning.ai/courses/post-training-of-llms