What Is an Algorithm?
An algorithm is a finite list of unambiguous steps for getting from an input to a result. A recipe is one. So is long division. Computers did not invent them and are not required to run them.
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How Do Large Language Models Actually Work?
A language model predicts what text should come next, one fragment at a time. Everything it appears to do, including reasoning, is built out of that single trick performed at enormous scale.
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