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Every AI Answer Is a Bet: What I Learned Teaching Stanford's Probability for AI

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Ask an AI a question and watch the words arrive, one after another. It feels like the machine is looking something up. It is not. At every step, the model is placing a bet. Given everything written so far, it assigns a probability to each possible next token, picks one, and moves on. The paragraph…

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  1. 2026-10-24 15:38 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Every AI Answer Is a Bet: What I Learned Teaching Stanford's Probability for AI

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