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How ChatGPT and other AI chatbots answer your question

Attention: how an AI model works out what "it" means

Read this: "The trophy does not fit in the suitcase because it is too big." You know at once what "it" means. An AI model cannot ask anyone and cannot look anything up. So how does it find what "it" means?

  1. 1 So the model gets to work, and one small token is a puzzle at once.the modelWater "it"?What is "it"?Myplantislosingitsleaves.ShouldIwateritmore??

    So the model gets to work, and one small token is a puzzle at once.

  2. 2 The embedding of "it" is the same whatever "it" stands for. Its meaning must come from the other words of your prompt, its context.itthe same embeddingin every sentence???

    The embedding of "it" is the same whatever "it" stands for. Its meaning must come from the other words of your prompt, its context.

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