I’m using ‘simulation’ as it’s used in the post [the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time]. The real-world process is the production of the string of tokens.
I still think that referring to what the LLM does in one step as “a simulation” is at best misleading. “a prediction” seems accurate and not to mislead in the same way.
Ah, so again, you’re making the distinction that the process of generating a single token is just a single timestep of a simulation, rather than saying its highly unlikely to be an emulation (or even a single timestep of an emulation). With which I agree, though I don’t see it as a distinction inobvious enough that I’d expect many people to trip over it. (Perhaps my background is showing.)
OK, then we were talking rather at cross-purposes: thanks for explaining!
I’m using ‘simulation’ as it’s used in the post [the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time]. The real-world process is the production of the string of tokens.
I still think that referring to what the LLM does in one step as “a simulation” is at best misleading. “a prediction” seems accurate and not to mislead in the same way.
Ah, so again, you’re making the distinction that the process of generating a single token is just a single timestep of a simulation, rather than saying its highly unlikely to be an emulation (or even a single timestep of an emulation). With which I agree, though I don’t see it as a distinction inobvious enough that I’d expect many people to trip over it. (Perhaps my background is showing.)
OK, then we were talking rather at cross-purposes: thanks for explaining!