What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

@jasongorman Fuck, Jason. That's quotable.
@GeePawHill I feel a t-shirt coming on 🙂
@jasongorman @GeePawHill i can imagine like

first panel has the first line as a caption for a picture of this big looming shiny metal machine

second panel has the last line and the same machine, but the toast is done and has popped up
@jasongorman @GeePawHill (of course the toast has faces on them)