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If GPTs only predict the next word how do they decide between "a" and "an". Wouldn't this have massive effect on their abilities? (programming.dev)

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[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I thought they’re not so much choosing words as chunks of words. So it would be “a” but then “-n other” or whatever. Maybe?

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