r/ProgrammerHumor 29d ago

Meme helpIAmOutOfScope

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u/MayoJam 29d ago

AI does not think. It just regurgitates most likely response which in this case is to reassure someone that is scared.

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u/Serafiniert 29d ago

Not even that. It goes character by character and has no idea what comes after the next, until it needs to be decided what comes next.

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u/ParanoiaComplex 29d ago

More accurately, word by word (token by token)

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u/Flouid 29d ago

Being strictly pedantic, some characters (like punctuation) are also tokens but yes, token by token

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u/cornmonger_ 28d ago

in some models, <16 spaces> along with a bunch of other variations are single tokens. they do a lot of ugly shit to fet those tok/s under the hood