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LLMs are kinda like a brute force attack in the form of natural language
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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That's not how it works at all. You are talking about "thinking" models, which are just models prompting themselves.
LLMs are fancy next word predictors. It's just returning what mathematically is the next likely word given their training set (really token since it doesn't actually understand words).
I'm not sure what part of my "explain like I'm five " version you're taking issue with enough to correct me. You may want to clarify if you feel I've misinformed.
To my read, you just restated what I was trying to make more accessible.
Edit: I added some air quotes to help clarify that the terms I used are for illustration only.