What ChatGPT is actually doing when it answers you
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It doesn't "understand" you. It does one thing, over and over: guess the next token, append it, guess again. Once that clicks, the weird behavior stops being mysterious: Tokens, not letters — that's why it can't count the r's in "strawberry". Meaning is geometry — words become vectors; "king" sits…
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- 2026-09-12 16:51 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
What ChatGPT is actually doing when it answers you