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What an LLM Actually Is (and Isn't)

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An LLM doesn't "know" that Paris is the capital of France the way a database row knows it. It doesn't understand your question, and it isn't reasoning before it answers. Here's the one sentence that explains almost everything "weird" about how these models behave: A large language model is a functi…

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  1. 2026-09-18 16:17 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
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