@arstechnica it's autocorrect, but more trained.
It doesn't "know", it doesn't "understand", it doesn't "think"..
It's just using probability (see statistics) to make sentences up (like autocorrect when it suggests other words as you type).

@rebeccafinn @arstechnica several times the article says that researchers don't understand how the LLM "does" something. I find that very strange. How could they not know what it is doing? Is this just the author not differentiating between outside researchers that don't have access to proprietary information and internal researchers working to build the LLM?

@cetan @rebeccafinn @arstechnica It's mathemagics created by neural networks, probably. They are known to create code which baffles humans, but somehow works :)