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> a generative model is a function that can take a structured collection of symbols as input and produce a related structured collection of symbols as output.
by j_crick 4y ago
> a generative model is a function that can take a structured collection of symbols as input and produce a related structured collection of symbols as output.
Yeah that’s exactly the way a nOrMiE would find easy to think about it. Duh.
The author probably should dish out that sentence on his grandparents and see how that would work before putting it on the internet and labeling it as “for normies”.
- khazhoux 4y agoHa, good luck with that. I’m still trying to convince my own grandparents that a monad is simply a monoid in the category of endofunctors.
- 6510 4y agoWoah, article is way to TL:DR too! Let me show how it is done: A generative model is just a computer program. The program is incredibly book smart. No matter how incoherent your ramblings it will find the most likely connection between words, string them into (mostly wrong) candidate sentences with different degrees of certainty, it looks in its database where everything you said is compared to the wrong word combinations assigning scores to each and then it adds up all the points scored and it finds THE most likely correct response: "All gore invented the internet" There, that is all there is to it.