Bernie vs. Claude

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11. No, it doesn't.

The source code for many of these are public. You can walk through the loop and understand that LLMs are strictly non-deterministic number generators. Example: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp

You can build your own non-deterministic number generator too by following: https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html

Now, you may argue that there is the appearance of "emergent behavior" because the non-deterministic sequences that it produces appear very, very similar to the data that the weights are produced from (human generated). So a human may mistake such outputs for sensible or even factual content. It could in fact read factually. But that isn't the intent of an LLM. It has no intent beyond generating a sequence of numbers until a limit or a end of tokens signal is hit.

It is important for people to understand this fundamentally before they post their "conversations" (number generator sessions) with them, or make wild-eye claims about what they know or can do. LLMs are a very, very good parlor trick based on math.